Are Our Kids Connecting With Nature?
Oct 29
“Nature is in trouble, and children’s connection to nature is closely linked to this. The recent State of Nature report shows that nature in the UK is being lost at a dramatic rate. We can all take action to put nature back into childhood, to ensure young people have better lives and a better future,” said RSPB Chief Executive Dr. Mike Clarke on the organization’s website.
Identifying and measuring how much “connection to nature” our children have or don’t have hasn’t been done before to this degree, and, no doubt, there may be some disagreements about what the ideal connection level should be. However, putting that aside, the results are worth considering.
Think about it. How badly will our children want to preserve parks, forests, lakes and rivers if they don’t play in them now? Will they want to save endangered species of plants or animals that they’ve never heard of or even seen?
Sources:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/355439-just-one-in-five-UK-children-connected-to-nature-groundbreaking-study-finds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24532638
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