Earthwatch Europe

🏫 ✨ A huge thank you to our partners Admiral Group Plc for supporting and capturing the transformation of our first Green Earth School in Wales (watch the video below)! 🌱 Through our #GreenEarthSchools programme, we collaborate with school communities in urban areas to turn their grounds into nature-rich spaces for exceptional outdoor learning and play. Find out more 👉

💡 How can policy support citizen science? Our Director of Science and Policy, Dr Sasha Woods, wrote a piece for Comment Central on how policy can better support citizen science by recognising it as a legitimate scientific approach and integrating its findings into official monitoring and reporting. In the environmental sector, citizen science has a key role to play. Citizen scientists are capable of generating extensive, accurate, and timely information at local, national and even global levels - helping to create data for positive environmental change. With the right policy support, the impact of citizen science will multiply – for people, for science and for the environment. #GreatUKWaterBlitz #CitizenScience #policy https://lnkd.in/en7mbTeg

💧 How clean is your local stream or river? Find out about the state of our fresh waters in our September Great UK WaterBlitz report! Between 20 and 23 September, over 4,500 people across the UK used our FreshWater Watch water testing kit to measure their local water quality, collecting more than 2,300 datapoints. It's been fantastic to see this citizen scientists data make national headlines this week in The Guardian, on BBC News, in BBC Countryfile Magazine and many others. Together we can fight for real change! Join us for the next Great UK WaterBlitz in Spring 2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eR4GT9yk #GreatUKWaterBlitz #FreshWaterWatch #nutrientpollution #watertesting #riverhealth #citizenscience

🗞️💧 A fantastic exclusive in The Guardian this week by sandra laville, sharing the highlights of the September Great UK WaterBlitz! The results of the WaterBlitz showed that 61% of datapoints across the UK have poor water quality with significant regional variation. For this WaterBlitz we joined forces with researchers from Imperial College London to test water samples for additional chemicals. Of the samples tested, 100% had further contamination; with 80% of samples presenting some level of risk from analysed compounds to aquatic life. Contaminants included caffeine, antidepressants and painkillers. You can read about the highlights of the report in The Guardian here: https://lnkd.in/gXDQe7vA Explore the scores of your local water bodies, and the full results, in our Great UK WaterBlitz report on our website: https://lnkd.in/eY6bauDN A huge thanks to the thousands of volunteer citizen scientists across the UK, including many groups from our supporters The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes), for braving the wettest weekend of the year, 20-23rd September, to take part in the Great UK WaterBlitz. Citizen science has the power to generate vast, accurate water quality data, but regular testing is key. Join us for the next Great UK WaterBlitz in April 2025, register your interest on our website: https://lnkd.in/e5GVxhpE

📣 We're hiring! 🌳 We're looking for a Nature in Cities Project Manager. This role will manage the delivery of our urban projects including establishing urban nature-based solutions, and delivering educational and engagement programmes. ⏰ Deadline for applications: 5 November View the full job description and apply on our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/egtf4Zmw #Hiring #JobVacancy #CharityJobs

🎖️ 🏃♀️➡️ 🏃➡️ 🏃♂️➡️ A huge well done to Steve Westmore MICFor, Nick Bolton and Felicity Goldsmith, a.k.a. Team Tree Frontiers Ltd, for completing the Oxford Half Marathon last Sunday and smashing their fundraising goal in support of Tiny Forest! 🌳 As fellow tree enthusiasts, and arboriculturists, the team fundraised for the Tiny Forest programme to support the promotion and protection of woodland environments. The money they raised for our Tiny Forest programme will help us bring the benefits of woodlands into the heart of our cities and urban spaces: connecting people with nature and providing spaces to support wildlife. #marathonrunners #TinyForest #naturebasedsolutions

🏆🎉 We're thrilled that our partnership with Fever-Tree and Mitchells & Butlers PLC (All Bar One) has won the Stakeholder Engagement Award at the Footprint 2024 Drinks Sustainability Awards! 🤝 We’re proud to be in our third year of the partnership, which invests in the care of our Tiny Forest network across the UK through local community support and forest maintenance. 💚 Ongoing engagement of the local community with the trees and the ecosystem around them is one of the most powerful elements of Tiny Forest. This partnership enables us to reach and train more volunteers and grow our Tree Keeper network. #SustainabilityDrinksAwards24 #TinyForest #treecare #TreeKeepers #corporatepartnerships

🌳📏 Tiny Forest Tree Survey starts today! Support nature by measuring trees at your local Tiny Forest. Help us understand how Tiny Forests grow and bring benefits to people and wildlife in urban communities. 📅 12 - 20 October 2024 Sign up for a FREE survey pack and autumn tree ID guide 👉https://lnkd.in/ePfq5YvH #TFTreeSurvey

🏃➡️🏃♀️➡️🏃♂️➡️ Good luck to team Tree Frontiers Ltd - Steve Westmore MICFor, Nick Bolton and Felicity Goldsmith - running the Oxford Half Marathon this Sunday in support of Tiny Forest! 🌳💚 The money they raise for our Tiny Forest programme will help us bring the benefits of woodlands into the heart of our cities and urban spaces: connecting people with nature and providing spaces to support wildlife. Team Tree Frontiers Ltd have trained hard all summer - on holiday, locally and in all sorts of weather. You can still help them reach their fundraising target through their JustGiving page 👇 https://lnkd.in/e93Nkfau

🍂 Do you love the colours of autumn? Discover the autumn trees at your local Tiny Forest whilst taking part in the Tiny Forest Tree Survey! Visit one of our 250+ Tiny Forests across the UK and take part in the Tiny Forest Tree Survey during 12 – 20 October. It's a simple survey, measuring and identifying trees. The data you collect will help us understand how Tiny Forests benefit people and wildlife in urban areas. Sign up to receive a FREE survey pack & autumn tree ID guide 👉https://lnkd.in/ePfq5YvH