COP27 Presidency launches Adaptation Agenda to build climate resilience for 4 billion by 2030 In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, in southern Mauritania, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden. A project piloted by UNICEF...
The Guernsey Conservation Volunteers are a group of people who meet regularly to do hands-on conservation work outdoors on the island of Guernsey. Over the past month the volunteers have cleared bramble, and removed the invasive species sour fig, and cape ivy. Sour Fig (Carpobrotus edulis)FactsCommon...
Click on the image to take you to the homepage for this festival This festival took place in October 2022. Guernsey was represented by two talks:1. Explaining how to find your school carbon footprint by school pupils - (apologies this video will be not be available until...
October FOCUSClimate change is NOT coming - it is already here! David Attenborough said, "The greatest threat to our planet is apathy." Maybe these short videos will inspire you to take action, to join organisations who are trying to make a different with nature or more simply...
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A mass extinction is a short period of geological time in which a high percentage of biodiversity, or distinct species—bacteria, fungi, plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates—dies out. In this definition, it’s important to note that, in geological time, a ‘short’ period can span...
Government House, Guernsey is 10 acres of elegant parkland and landscaped gardens. There are over 150 mature trees of all varieties including 2 planted by Queen Elizabeth II during her visits in 1989 and 2001, and a number planted to commemorate other Royal visits. The grounds also...
INSECT: a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.One million insects are known but scientists think that there could be up to 10 million on the planet. Some will go extinct before we even know they exist....
Electrical devicesLook around your house and identify anything that is on standby. These devices slowly eat away at your electricity and by turning them off when you don't use them, they will save you hundreds of pounds each year.How can you tell if something is...
The Turning tides project is a community interest company who believe that everyone has the right of equal access to music, arts and life. Many of the people who benefit from this project are autistic and have a learning disability.The project takes a social model...