Brighton and Hove launch Big Nature, a biodiversity partnership of seven local conservation organisations coming together to promote International Year of Biodiversity.
A competition to design a logo for the Big Nature partnership was won by schoolgirl Mia Falcon. She was presented with a prize by the Mayor at the Jubilee Library in Brighton on Thursday 21 January.
Her winning bumblebee design will be used to brand all Big Nature events. It was chosen to highlight the plight of bees. Big Nature is also planning to run a Bee Aware campaign to encourage people to grow bee-friendly plants.
Big Nature, also an IYB-UK partner, aims to promote local wildlife and encourage people to take part in nature conservation in and around the Brighton area.
Other events planned for the year include a Window Box Wildlife competition where people use window boxes to grow plants to encourage wildlife. A Bio Blitz is planned later this year in Stanmer Park where for 24 hours local people can join wildlife experts to identify and record as many species as they can.
For more information, visit the Big Nature website.
Soil Association Organic Fortnight (3–17 September) is the UK’s biggest celebration of all things organic. Organic farming is a sustainable system of food production that works with nature, avoids the use of pesticides, and prohibits the use of synthetic fertilisers and genetically modified organisms.
It gives me great pleasure to start with a disclaimer. Most View articles are careful to note that they are the personal views of the writer – rather than a particular organisation. In my case, however, this is not one particular organisation, but amazingly, more than 40 organisations that have been involved with BioBlitzes this year.
And there it was. Boom. Back in London. Having cycled 3,000km, through eight different countries, to travel from the source to the mouth of the River Danube in just three weeks. That question was a sharp and sudden reminder that we were now back home, back on the bike, and back commuting to work. The adventure was over.
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