EnviroBlog

Hello to all the new students who have joined Conservation and People and Planet!

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contact exec@green-students.co.uk

Thanks!

Ellen 

 

Last week was RSPCA Week, and we were fundraising for the Llys Nini centre in Swansea, which serves a large area of south Wales.

The centre is funded entirely by voluntary donations, and as it serves such a large area it needs a lot of funding!

Both the Conservation and People and Planet Societies helped out with a few events...

- A cake sale on Friday, selling home made cakes along with some RSPCA badges. We raised over £85 from this! Thanks to everyone who supported us, and to those that made the yummy cakes!!!

- The Animal Social.... welll... basically we all dressed up as animals, got very drunk and went round asking people to donate! Not sure quite how much we made yet, but a certain member dressed as a lamb/sheep managed to shake £37 out of peoples pockets!!! 

- Fundraising at Fforestfach Tesco - we stood outside Tesco for 5 hours, hungover as hell, with little blue money pots and various RSPCA goodies to sell! Again, the results are yet to come in as to how much we made.

Hopefully our efforts have helped the Llys Nini centre!

Thanks to Kev & Cath for organising it all!

 

-Steve 

 

Over the last few months we've been doing a lot of work on the Gower.

Huw Lloyd (the Gower Ranger, which is far more super-hero like than Power Rangers, cos they don't save wildlife) has been guiding us over the weeks with various projects from trail clearing to fence building/destroying which has been awesome! 

We've been to Port Einon (Fencing, Trail clearing), Horton (Fencing), Pwll Du (Gorse clearing) and Bishopston valley (Trail clearing)! Phew!

Not only have we been helping conserve the Gower but we've seen loads of wildlife including Britain's only carnivorous plant! woo! 

Lots more to come, including helping out on Ryers down and Huntingsdown... WATCH THIS SPACE!

Check out the pictures! 

http://www.green-students.co.uk/gallery/index.php?dir=./Events

 

-Steve 

Get 4 friends and donate a tenner each, and buy an acre of rainforest! Awesome. http://www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/donation.htm

In one of the few places on Earth where people can rarely be found, the human race has well and truly made its mark. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a floating garbage patch twice the size of Britain. A place where the water is filled with six times as much plastic as plankton. This plastic-plankton soup is entering the food chain and heading for your dinner table.

Read more... here

EU ministers have agreed to impose carbon emissions quotas on airlines in an attempt to fight climate change.

Stavros Dimas says aircraft emissions could double by 2020

Read more on the BBC news site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7154673.stm

A controversial Japanese mission to hunt humpback whales in the Antarctic has been temporarily abandoned, a top government official says.



Japan has said the hunt would be too small to affect whale numbers

Read more on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7155255.stm