We might all have a plethora of completely different reasons for caring about oceans and waterways, but the fact that any of us does care is what matters. 

Learn about the amazing Dr Mya-Rose Craig and why she is an inspiration to AFC Ambassador Sam!

Read this blog to learn about how the South East Summer Camp participants reunited at the Wildwood Trust in Kent to kick off their Ambassador journey.

Oats would certainly have been grown on the Penpont estate since medieval times, read this blog to learn more about how we’re bringing them back!

Meet AFC Volunteer, Catherine, she works as an ecologist based in Bristol. Like everyone this year, she has been affected by the lockdown in her work and home life. Unlike everyone else, UK wildlife still spent the spring and summer waking up from hibernation, building nests, and carrying on with their usual day to day routines. Discover more about ecology in this blog!

Have you ever wondered where the soil underneath us actually comes from? And what exactly it is? The read this blog to find out more!

In this guest post, Gina Maffey from Seedball shares why planting for biodiversity is so important and how we can all play our part in promoting insect health.

Some may consider humankind’s effects on nature as an inevitable and irreversible side effect of population growth. However, in the United Kingdom, conservationists hope to flip that assumption on its head and reintroduce a species that was eradicated from the country nearly 1,300 years ago: the lynx.

In this blog, Action for Conservation core team volunteer, Henry Duffy tells us all about his conservation work in Belize with Blue Ventures and why volunteering in conservation is so important!

Why are things the way they are? Surely they could be better? This attitude often arises during student days - the liberation of independence comes along with the chance to grapple with big ideas and rub shoulders with people from different walks of life. These things along with the fact that young people haven’t had the chance to become jaded or cynical often makes them radical in their beliefs. Can we apply this to conservation?

The concept of ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ was first mentioned in 2005 when Richard Louv published his book Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature deficit disorder. This blog addresses if the theory stood the test of time and what, if anything is being done about the problems it highlights?

The woodland area that is left on this planet is believed to be only half what it was in 1947, an astonishing figure. To be frank, this should be reason enough to take serious action, however, I intend not to focus on why we haven’t and instead on why we should ‘stop chopping’.