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‘Biodiversity in Schools’ is a project set up to encourage young people across Ireland to take an interest in nature.
We created the initiative as we felt the best way to ensure a more environmentally-friendly future for Ireland was to engage with the next generation. While there is outstanding environmental work being done in schools across the country, time pressures often push nature to the bottom of the pile. We aim to make it easier for schools to teach children about this important topic. Also, with young people's increasing access to technology there is a growing detachment from the outdoors and a consequent nature-deficit. To reset the balance of indoors and outdoors, 'screen-time' and 'real-time', it is essential that we encourage children to engage with the natural world. And it's not just about the children, there's serious nature conservation to be done too! Sadly, since 1970 over half of the earth’s wildlife has been lost; 60% of all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are now gone. Every single day our planet's population grows by 246,015 people. Every 3 seconds a forest the size of Croke Park is lost. Working with primary school children across Ireland is a pleasure and a privilege. As we travel around the country from school to school it is clear that all young people of Ireland harbour an excitement of the natural world. This innate curiosity has been further developed by the wonderful Green Schools programme to create generations with incredible environmental competence. We are thrilled to be part of this work in opening up the awesome world of biodiversity to the children of Ireland. Their natural excitement is simply priceless but we need to ensure it is met with the encouragement and resources it requires - and that's what we aim to do! |
what if our primary schools came together
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Primary Schools
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Teachers
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Students
we could create a nationwide nature reserve patchwork of over...
ACRES
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Croke Parks
