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| Ian33568 |
Wildlife populations 'plummeting'What will it take before we wake up to the fact that without biodiversity we are heading for very difficult times?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7403989.stm |
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| Maxwell Smart |
The problem is the average kid is growing up with never having seen an animal other than on TV - dogs, cats and rats excepted. Wasn't there something recently that most kids and many adults don't even know where pork comes from?
I think that until people learn to appreciate nature, they won't care whether or not it disappears. The average person is far too selfish or perhaps just narrow minded to see/care about what is not right in front of their eyes. And most things are unfortunately on the periphery. |
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| Andy B |
I wonder if this is by accident or design, if we are being educated / brainwashed, not to care! If we dont know where our food comes from then we wont care what things are done to get it their. The world is full of resource / opportunities ( For big business to earn lots of money ) and a lot of the time animals, and the people who do care, get in the way of getting at the resource. Remove the point of objection, remove the problem. educate people into a different mindset about what is important, remove the objector! | ||
| Ian33568 |
I find the whole thing totally alarming - that as a species we care very little about other species. We are heading for a series of crisis if our biodiversity continues to decline. Some reports suggest that the bee population has declined by as much as 70% - if this is the case, the impact on pollination in the future if this trend persists, will be devastating.
Until we somehow change our mindset from 'live for today' then it is a gloomy outlook for our childrenand future generations. Does anyone know what nature/environmental studies are currently taught in Schools? |
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| ros |
not much as far as I can tell from the three my kids go to, BUT what I think is not much is a whole lot better than it was 20 years ago. There are initiatives being started to encourage thinking about "nature" in schools. http://www.edibleplaygrounds.co.uk/ http://www.allaboutyou.com/country/country-living-nature-table-campaign/special http://www.asda-gogreenforschools.co.uk/ I don't think any of these on their own have much impact and to my cynical mind also smack of easy advertising, BUT anything that enthuses our youngsters is going to help their future |
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| gnome |
you can't blame ignorence and lack of education. we never had nature classes at school (i taught myself) and my mother tells me that when london children were evacuated to the countryside during WWII, they saw real animals for the very first time.
Today's children get a much better education in wildlife - even if it's only watching nature programs on TV. It is not the young people who are destroying the wildlife - it's the grown-ups, the industries, the planners, the politicians, the people who should know better. it was young people like "Swampie" who protested and tried to stop roads being built through fields and woodlands by the old hag and her minions. greedy people with power are responsible, not the powerless. |
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| Jamanda |
Last Tuesday, the first day I saw my my year nines (aged 14) after they'd finished their SATs was a beautiful day. I took them up to a grassy bank next a building site (most of my school grounds for the next three years) I had challenged them to find as many species of plant off the ID sheets I provided as possible.
They loved it - I sat there, in the sun, and said - it's Poa annua, it's black medick, it's a wild geranium - they were all rushing round trying to find something I didn't know. At the end one lad actually said thank you for an interesting lesson. Kids like nature - and taxonomy is interesting! |