Book review – ‘New Zealand Nature Heroes’ by Gillian Candler

Potton & Burton are very good at a high quality nature publishing. Nature Heroes takes the reader to an array of ‘larger than life’ characters , and real life folks, all of whom have one big thing in common – their love and nature , and their willingness to do something practical about a particular species, to help it out. By Award-winning author Gillian Candler Richard Henry – the grandfather of conservation’ – who helped the kakapo Don Merton –...

Nature kids clubs

There’s some GREAT resources for younger audience, so even when you cannot ‘get outside’ any further than your house and garden , you can still ‘get outside’ in your garden…. Here’s a selection UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Audubon Society has this Kids club with amazing resources – downloads, videos https://www.audubon.org/get-outside/activities/audubon-for-kids The National Wildlife Foundation has Ranger Rick free online activities, plus a costed club with magazine. UNITED KINGDOM The Woodlands Trust has free online activities The RSPB – Royal...

Dawn Chorus Day

For those who are particularly into birdwatching or intend to be UP for this – Monday May 4th – here are some good resources United Kingdom – RSPB https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/birdwatching/ Australia – Birdlife https://www.birdlife.org.au/all-about-birds/birdwatching New Zealand – Forest & Bird https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/ as well as their kids club https://kcc.org.nz/ Here’s a video https://youtu.be/xudHav8digY The Guardian ‘take’ on dawn chorus https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/02/beautiful-birdsong-how-the-dawn-chorus-reconnects-me-to-life-and-hope?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other LearnFromNature  Tweet  ...

Bats

As bats are getting a hard time – with their connections to Coronavirus- these already creatures shouldn‘t ‘require’ any clarifications but ‘Just because’ here are some facts and myths exploded… The Guardian sets the record straight about bats and coronavirus Top ‘Bats’ websites Bats Conservation UK has many excellent resources / twitter @_BCT Bat Conservation International the United States based website / @BatConIntl Bats and flying foxes rescue (Australia) Australasian Bat Society / twitter @AusBats LearnFromNature  Tweet  ...