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Eco‑literate children can be stewards of nature – here’s how to boost environmental education

Seirian Sumner

Most of my ecology and evolution undergraduates have never held a pair of binoculars or looked at a bug through a magnifying glass. They don’t know how to use a key to identify a plant or insect, let alone why they should bother. They struggle to name

common garden birds. They expect to learn about biodiversity from behind the safety of a computer screen. Fieldwork is considered a luxury or an inconvenience, depending on your tolerance to rain.

It’s not the students’ fault...

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Urban Gardens Could Be The Secret Weapon in Boosting City Biodiversity

Alun Salt

A team led by Monika Egerer at the Technical University of Munich is pioneering a novel approach to urban conservation. Their study, published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, proposes using community gardens as ‘biodiversity hubs’ – living laboratories where conservation strategies can be developed, tested, and then expanded into the wider urban environment.

The researchers are reimagining community gardens as catalysts for city-wide ecological change. These spaces are seen as perfect for experimenting with biodiversity interventions on a small scale before implementing them across neighbourhoods...

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They thought they were growing fruit. They accidentally grew a neighborhood.

gina-errico

In an urban neighborhood of Stockholm surrounded by residential homes, supermarkets and parking lots, is an outlier: a forest garden. Upon entry into this greenspace, you will find a lush garden full of plants, encased by trees from the canopy above. This garden, like many others, was built by community members to increase access to edible plants in a sustainable way.

However, it turns out that the impact of these gardens on the community is not just food production, but socialization. A recent study published in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening conducted an inventory of urban forest gardens around Sweden and...

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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Sandra Laville and Madeleine Finlay

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

Imagine a deafening abundance of birdsong so loud it wakes your children at dawn; the chirrup of house sparrows, the chattering of starlings, the melody of the wren, and the clear high-pitched flute of blackbirds saturating the garden, reverberating around your local park, dominating your neighbourhood from early morning to evening twilight...

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This article underscores why we are concerned about biodiversity and want to explore what we can do to foster it.

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