{"id":14298,"date":"2017-01-20T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=14298"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T14:58:18","slug":"thousands-of-cardiff-children-may-miss-out-on-wildlife-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/thousands-of-cardiff-children-may-miss-out-on-wildlife-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Cardiff children may miss out on wildlife project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSPB says children will lose out after a nature project is scrapped due to lack of funding.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation&#8217;s &#8220;Giving Nature a Home&#8221; project has been funded for the past three years through the 5p bag charge at Tesco supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>The funding arrangement ends at the start of April.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince it began in 2014, the project\u00a0has helped more than 20,000 Cardiff children spend time exploring wildlife in their school grounds and has run\u00a0numerous free community events for families, in the city&#8217;s parks.<\/p>\n<p>It was designed after\u00a0an RSPB survey found only one in eight Welsh children felt connected to their natural environment. Wales\u00a0came out bottom of the list\u00a0for the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Robertson, Project Manager,\u00a0RSPB Cymru (pictured below) \u00a0said, &#8220;If children don&#8217;t connect with nature, \u00a0they won&#8217;t want to look after it in the future. Further funding is critical if we want to improve on this shocking statistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14355\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carolyn-Roberston-Project-Manager-RSPB-163x122.jpeg\" alt=\"carolyn-roberston-project-manager-rspb\" width=\"164\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RSPB have run activities in\u00a060% of the 114 primary schools in Cardiff. \u00a0The organisation says it wants to encourage children to enjoy wildlife on their doorstep, but are finding many children do not want to get their hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Over\u00a0the winter, staff have taken wheelbarrows full of earth and insects into St David&#8217;s shopping centre in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>At one event funded through the project, 74,000 people crawled around inside a giant spider&#8217;s web in the trees of Bute Park, giving them a different perspective on the natural world around them.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bob Derbyshire, Cabinet Member for Environment said, &#8220;We have some fantastic parks and green spaces in Cardiff but it can be all too easy to live in a city without giving any real thought to the natural world around us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14308\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2225_RSPB_RHS-49-173x122.jpg\" alt=\"2225_rspb_rhs-49\" width=\"173\" height=\"122\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14316\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Online-use-only_no-printing_6-183x122.jpg\" alt=\"online-use-only_no-printing_6\" width=\"183\" height=\"122\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14314\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2079026-183x122.jpg\" alt=\"2079026\" width=\"183\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Robertson said, &#8220;We know from the State of Nature in Wales report last year that 1 in 14 species face extinction in Wales and if you combine that with children&#8217;s disconnection with nature around them, the future looks very bleak for the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wildlife project in danger of being scrapped if future funding not found. Carolyn Robertson explains. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wildcardiff?src=hash\">#wildcardiff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSPBCymru\">@RSPBCymru<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BroadcastCJS\">@BroadcastCJS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RLR5FDZ443\">pic.twitter.com\/RLR5FDZ443<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pommy Harmar (@Pom_pom10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pom_pom10\/status\/822472087096983552\">January 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RSPB Cymru are looking for further funds to carry on running the project after April.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSPB says children will lose out after a nature project is scrapped due to lack of funding. The organisation&#8217;s &#8220;Giving Nature a Home&#8221; project has been funded for the past three years through the 5p bag charge at Tesco supermarkets. The funding arrangement ends at the start of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[539,925,926,609,923,924,927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14298"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14840,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14298\/revisions\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}