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Woodland Trust, Heartwood Forest: Indians and Cowboys

Woodland Trust, Heartwood Forest: Indians and Cowboys

Posted By Ina Woolcott

“Plans to create England’s largest new native forest took a major step forward at the beginning of October 2008, when the Woodland Trust took possession 858 acres (347 hectares) of land, on which 600,000 trees will be planted. Incredibly, it takes just 12 years to turn bare land into flourishing native woodland, complete with a diverse range of wildlife and towering trees. - WOW, it really never is too late.

It immediately marked its ownership by opening six new, British-made, larch kissing gates into the site. Now, members of the public can walk miles of permissive footpaths through formerly private farmland containing 3 pockets of ancient woodland - 44acres in total -hosting the UKs richest wildlife habitat, located near Sandridge, just 3 miles north of St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Getting out and active in woodland is great way for adults and children to connect with nature. Over 2 million people live within 15 miles of the site which can be accessed via public transport, and we want everyone to come and take part”.

Editors comment:
As my regular readers already know, I am very connected to nature. I could disappear into the wilderness forever with the knowledge to survive, a tipi, horses and those closest to me wishing to join me (and who would live by my rules, lol). My daughter naturally would have no choice but to come with me…. I keep coming across inspiring projects like this, and they make me teary-eyed with happiness and hope. Someone said to me the other day “its too late to save the planet/nature”. (pessimistic so-and-so). If everyone had that attitude, we’d get nowhere in life. As me and my mum like to say, ‘its never too late’. . :-)

More and more people are trying to turn things around and encourage nature to flourish, and encourage the wildlife that has been driven away for so many centuries to return. Our inner shamans, our inner children, are coming out - about time too. I love it, it makes my heart and soul glad. Lets go an play in the woods :-) Lets be Indians and DEFINITELY NOT COWBOYS.

To find out more info, what you can do to help and/or to make a donation (go on, I did!) go to:
WOODLAND TRUST WEBSITE

Related reading:
Great Fen Project
Great Fen Project: What You Should Know

The Great Fen Project: Just What Wildlife, Nature and People Need

The Great Fen Project: Just What Wildlife, Nature and People Need

Posted by Ina Woolcott

The Great Fen Project’s aim is to create a 3,700 hectare (9142.899 acre) wetland, restoring over 3000 hectares of fenland habitat between Huntingdon and Peterborough, safeguarding threatened habitats and providing a massive green-space for people, with a wealth of possibilities for recreation, education and the local economy.

This will connect Woodwalton Fen Nature Reserve with Holme Fen Nature Reserve - Holme and Woodwalton Fen are National Nature Reserves - to create a very large site with conservation benefits for wildlife and socio-economic benefits for people. When the project is complete, the area will be enhanced to the extent that new species will breed there.

The project, which is long-term, is managed in partnership by the Environment Agency, Huntingdonshire District Council, Middle Level Commissioners, Natural England and the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough and is impressive in its ambition and vision. It aims to combine nature conservation and management with tourism and other income-generating activities. It could also play a strategic role by storing flood water for the protection of the Middle Level System and the homes, farms and businesses that depend on the system.

EDITORS NOTE:

I find the whole project simply amazing and awe inspiring. Just what wildlife, nature and people need. Its so nice to hear of a project of this scale where people are working with nature and not against her, not destroying her but encouraging and helping her and the creatures and plants and trees that live within her. Heart warming. A 3 hour drive from me, but at some point in the next year I plan to go with my daughter Aiyana, and also with my MUM, but she doesn’t know it yet ;-)

RELATED LINKS:
The Great Fen Project
Wildlife Trust UK | Water for Wildlife UK
Arundel Wildfowl and Wetland Trust
Wildlife Travel - Worldwide Wildlife Viewing With Local Experts
The Great Fen Project: What You Should Know

Organic is Best for All Life Forms

Organic is Best for All Life Forms

Posted By Ina Woolcott

Organic farms support biodiversity, encouraging and supporting wildlife, when so much wildlife has been, and is still is being, destroyed by non-organic farming methods.

Just some of the benefits of organic farming are:

* Wildlife is an essential part of the organic farming

* More hedges

* Wider Field Margins

* Herb and Clover

* Mixed Crops

* No artificial, chemical pesticides or fertilizers

* No GM

* Tastier more flavour-full products

ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTION WORKS WITH NATURE NOT AGAINST IT. I personally have an ‘organic only’ policy in my home, and no meat apart from fish. I just cant get enough of organics! We do eat out occasionally though and that cant always be organic.

Related reading:
www.organicfoodee.com
Young Farmers are Going Organic
Organics Say No to Chemicals and Additives
Earth Friendly Products for Home, Lawn and Garden

Peru Rainforest Threat

Peru Rainforest Threat

Posted By Ina Woolcott

The Peruvian Amazon is 6 times the size of Britain, a vast and vital place. A recent rush for its abundant resources means that deforestation is happening here quicker than anywhere else in South America. Its saddening, maddening and incomprehensible that this kind of thing is still occurring inb this day and age. And even if it isn’t, it is done anyway. Why? The greedy, soul-less bastards.


Help Save 5 Million Acres of Rainforest | Alan Forrest Smith

Help Save 5 Million Acres of Rainforest | Alan Forrest Smith

By Viola Woolcott

It saddens me that when it comes to making money people have no limits to what they will do, as if enough rainforest hasn’t been, and is being, destroyed already. What needs to happen for people to wake up? Its all well and good putting carbon taxes on things like flying, but what are they gonna do with all that extra tax money? Give it to mother earth and apologise? A funny analogy, but the scene in Titanic always springs to mind when the ‘bad guy’ tries to buy his way on to a boat to be rescued and is bluntly told that all the money in the world cant save him now…

The Achuar people are the natural custodians of over two million acres of the most beautiful, untouched rainforest on planet earth today. The Achuar need our help to protect their remote virgin rainforest the oil industry seeks to destroy. Just over 5,000 inhabitants (plus 4 other groups) in a land that is 5 Million acres in size. These people are asking YOU to help them. It’s urgent you respond right away. …read more here

Popular GREEN products test positive for toxicant

Popular GREEN products test positive for toxicant

By Ina Woolcott

Surprise - Surprise

I was already aware that so called eco, organic, green, natural products etc are often full of ‘crap’, so reading this article came as no surprise. Personally, I only use Products of Mistry’s, for me and my daughter, and I also converted my mum to this product line after making her privy to what was really in all the apparently ‘good for you and good for the environment products’…

“New tests of 100 “natural” and “organic” soaps, shampoos and other consumer products show that nearly half of them contained a cancer-causing chemical that is a byproduct of petrochemicals used in manufacturing.”

…read the full article from the LA Times here.

Deforestation of the Worlds Rainforests

Deforestation of the Worlds Rainforests

By Ina Woolcott

The sad reality about deforestation… at this present time 12 million hectares are cleared annually. Human forest dwellers are losing their home, shelter and the animals and plants that sustain them. When the land is cleared, there is less rainfall and the once harmonious ecosystem is out of sync.

It is incomprehensible that human beings with good conscience and intentions would even agree to pick up a chainsaw and cut down the earths lungs on a mass scale. Perhaps their souls and conscience are easily sold for money. This is not right though and should not be allowed.

Deforestation

For related information click on the link below:
Environmental Charities

Mountaintop Removal | Toxic West Virginia

Mountaintop Removal | Toxic West Virginia

This is an amazing MUST WATCH video!


Meredith Danluck is a New York artist, director, and all-around amazing person who has a killer collection of power tools.
VBS bumped into her a few months ago and discovered that she has been working on a film in West Virginia, a sort of impressionistic account of the current environmental catastrophe in the Appalachian Mountains.

Mining companies are destroying entire mountains in order to get at the coal inside them. Quickly and efficiently, the oldest mountain range in the world is being systematically obliterated. We sent Meredith and VBS correspondent Derrick Beckles to the hills and hollers of West Virginia to show us what the end of the world looks like.