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Coinciding with the HavantBoroughBigGreenWeek, Churches are asked to take part in national wildlife count Churchyards and cemeteries will be celebrating their wildlife in a week-long event in June. During Love Your Burial Ground Weekand Churches Count on Nature (8-16 June) everyone is invited to explore their churchyards for wildlife and help survey what they find. Find out more here TheContinue reading “Churches Count on Nature”

Zero Hour has launched a campaign to encourage general election candidates to back the Climate and Nature Bill. The renamed bill was reintroduced to Parliament on 21 March by Alex Sobel MP, with cross-party backing. The campaign aims to develop an online letter of support for each constituency signed by as many individuals and local community groups as possible. Continue reading “The Climate & Nature Bill”

We’re launching our Havant Borough Big Green Week Children’s Art Competition 2024 Sponsored by the Mayor of Havant The theme this year is Beetles, Butterflies and Bugs Create an artwork to show what wonderful creatures are all around us. You might want to add examples of how we can protect them. To create your artwork,Continue reading “Beetles, Butterflies & Bugs – our art competion”

ADD YOUR COMMUNITY’S VOICE TO OUR LETTER TO PARTY LEADERS Protecting the things we love from the worst impacts of climate change is too important for division and delay. We need urgent action.  As we head into an election year, we need to show all politicians, political parties and candidates that people up and downContinue reading “The Climate Coalition’s Community letter”

Climate Scorecards Last year, Climate Emergency UK assessed every published council Climate Action Plan and released the results as a set of Scorecards. Now they have completed the far more demanding task of awarding Scorecards for every council’s actual performance against the climate goals they have set. You can head over to Climate Emergency UK to see howContinue reading “Climate Scorecards”

Do join campaigners around the world to call for action on climate change while the United Nations climate talks are taking place in Dubai. There’s an international day of action on the 9th December and local campaigners will be gathering near the D-Day museum at noon for a rally with music and song and thenContinue reading “We Rise Day of Action 9th Dec”

You can’t have missed some of the really alarming policy announcements from the Government recently, especially the decision to grant 100 new drilling licences in the North Sea. Moreover, the UK plans to drop its flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the UK’s contribution to meeting the global $100bn (£78.6bn) a year commitment to developing countries. ProtestContinue reading “Making Polluters Pay”

The Illegal Migration Bill is set to become law after the government won a final series of votes in House of Lords. Friends of the Earth is part of a coalition of 290 organisations representing the human rights, migrants’ rights, refugee and asylum, anti-trafficking etc which pledges to continue pushing for creative solutions and practicalContinue reading “Climate and Immigration”

Following the BBC series Wild Isles, three conservation charities: the World Wildlife Fund, the National Trust and the RSPB came together for the first time to create a follow-up documentary saving our Wild Isles, again narrated by Attenborough. This resulted in a unique Save Our Wild Isles campaign and a crowdsourced set of recommendations forContinue reading “The People’s Plan for Nature”