About

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Lucy Robinson, Natural History Museum: The National Education Nature Park is a new scheme that will allow young people across the country to improve their school site, or nursery or college, for nature.  

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Jade Gunnell, Natural History Museum: Kids from across England are going to actually be implementing actionable change on their school sites. So, this is young people mapping their space, recording the biodiversity, implementing interventions, maybe building a pond for example, and then recording the impact on that and how it increases biodiversity.

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Evie, student: Nature, it means everything to me because like it make you feel calm.

Alfie, student: It keeps us alive and healthy, it makes us feel happy all the time.

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Simon Colderley, Royal Horticultural Society: With the suite of activities  we're developing, I can see them being a pool which children can choose and follow their own pathway through those different activities to get the most out of their environment that they can. They can choose and they can develop that where they want.

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Katie Hall, ESRI: We're the geospatial partner, so we're providing free apps for students to use in schools where they can collect data about the biodiversity. They can understand what they've already got, and they can decide about the changes that they need to make that are going to help improve biodiversity in those sites as well.

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Simon Colderley, Royal Horticultural Society: It also allows the scientists to come out and record scientifically, it allows the artists to come out and and show creatively what they've done. We have got a cross-curricular appeal in what we do, and hoping schools grasp that and acknowledge that so they develop it across the whole school environment.

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Wendy Morgan, teacher: As a teacher, it can help me enrich the curriculum. It will broaden it, strengthen it, and the children will be able to see that they have an impact and that they have a voice. And that can make a change for the better, for the future.

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Lola, student: I never knew there was some things in this country and I've seen them today.

Tolu, student: Looking at different plants and and animals and finding like taking pictures of different plants and animals

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Lucy Robinson, Natural History Museum: This is a project that really pairs science research with taking action to improve our spaces for nature.

Jade Gunnell, Natural History Museum:  The reason it's important to engage younger people is that they're the future generation. So we need to be able to equip them and give them the skills, the confidence, the resilience, the agency, and build a society where more biodiversity exists and humans and nature are interacting in a more mutually beneficial way.