Education and publicity
Esso Treewatch
Trees are at the
top of our Fox
Club and Wildlife
Watch agenda
this autumn as
our junior clubs
throw their weight
behind Esso
Treewatch. This
latest Watch
project is part of
the larger Esso
Living Tree
Campaign,
supported by a
partnership of
organ isations
which includes
anyone who's anyone in the world of
conservation.
Esso Treewatch packs are now available
from the Trust at £10 - a bargain in view
of all that the boxed set contains. A
number of exciting Treewatch events -
which don't, incidentally, revolve
around watching trees for long periods -
have been arranged by Junior Events
Co-ordinator Sandra Richardson, and
woodland management is also the theme
of our latest Pawprint magazine - now
being produced by Debbie Schorab.
School nature showpiece
The grounds of Rosemellin Primary
School in Camborne are about to be
transformed, with help from the Trust
and Whitbread, into a nature showpiece
which will be the envy - and hopefully
inspiration - of the county. Whitbread'~
funding of the recent Nature's
Classroom project included £1 000 for
the Trust to spend on whichever school
submitted the best report.
Training days and advisory visits on
school grounds and other potential
nature areas are high priorities in the
Trust's educational work. One recent
training session was booked by Alona
Coulson for her fellow student teachers
- Alona is a former Fox Club member,
so education really does work!
Of course, the benefits of enlightening
our children won't been seen for some
time, so we must also inform the
decision makers of today. Training
days for grounds maintenance staff and
people involved in churchyard
management, adult education courses
(see Terry Geater's in the diary) and a
multitude of educational outings and
events contribute to this, but we could
do so much more if only we had the
resources.
Communication
The education section's lob within the
Trust extends far beyond teaching
through schools and other groups. It's
about communicating the Trust's
conservation messages to es'ervone in
every way we can. That includes
preparing Wild Cornwall magazine,
answering enquiries from the public,
issuing regular press releases and
producing interpretive leaflets and
boards for ourselves and other
organisations. Look out for the new
display at Looe Voluntary Marine
Conservation Area, designed and
lavishly illustrated by Sarah McCartney,
which is an excellent example of how to
deliver information.
For a county-based organisation, we
have a surprisingly high national profil~
Our work on dolphins, porpoises,
amphibians, reptiles, seals and CuIm
grassland, for example, has caught the
attention of the national media in recent
months. Do let us know if you have
something we can publicise locally or
nationally - it all helps to make the
public more aware of our existence and
our aims.
Mark Nicholson
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Tune in to trees - and the life they support - with
Treewatch
Photo supplied by The Wildlife Trusts
Teacher Clare Rule (left) and pupils from Rosemellin Primary
School in Camborne receive their
Whitbread Nature's Classroom award from Mrs Barbara Spring,
Chair of Cornwall County Council's
Community and Countryside Committee. Photo: Stuart Hutchings
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