Endangered Animals

Better Protection For Hedgehogs

I am going to tell you about how you can help get better protection for hedgehogs. A Bill called the Environment Bill is going through Parliament at the moment. A Bill is a new law that they’re thinking about getting made. While it’s going through Parliament, MPs can suggest changes to it called amendments. WithContinue reading “Better Protection For Hedgehogs”

The National Lobster Hatchery

Today we went to the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall. If any fishermen catch mummy lobsters with eggs, they can take them to the National Lobster Hatchery and they will look after them until the eggs hatch and the baby lobsters have grown a bit. Then they will release them into the sea. WhenContinue reading “The National Lobster Hatchery”

Big Butterfly Count Results

I just found out the Big Butterfly Count results! The Big Butterfly Count happened between 17th July and 9th August. You have to get a piece of paper and count the butterflies you see in 15 minutes. Then you need to submit the results to Butterfly Conservation, who organise the survey. The results showed lessContinue reading “Big Butterfly Count Results”

Bat Rescue!

We were on a walk near Boscastle in Cornwall on holiday, then we found a bat on a gatepost. It didn’t look the right place for a bat to be so we phoned the National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228. They said the bat needed help. Mummy put the bat in a little softContinue reading “Bat Rescue!”

How To Help Insects

This week is National Insect Week so I’m going to tell you about why insects are important and how you can help them. Insects are really important because they pollinate flowers, trees, fruits and vegetables. Without that, we wouldn’t be able to live! We wouldn’t have any food to eat and there wouldn’t be asContinue reading “How To Help Insects”

Ozzie Leads The Way

Ken Davies, who wrote Ozzie’s Migration and Ozzie’s Return sent me his other book about Ozzie the osprey called Ozzie Leads the Way. It’s longer than the other Ozzie books. It has 26 chapters! I’m going to tell you about it. It’s about a group of children who are learning about ospreys and following OzzieContinue reading “Ozzie Leads The Way”

Ospreys

I’m going to tell you about ospreys. Ospreys are a bird of prey that eat fish. There are ospreys in Scotland, England and Wales and they migrate to West Africa for the winter. We’ve seen ospreys in Wales at Dyfi Osprey Project and in England at Rutland Water. My favourite ospreys were Monty and TelynContinue reading “Ospreys”

Bats

We went bat watching in Sutton Park. We saw lots of bats and we heard them with our bat detector. They were flying over Blackroot Pool and between the trees near the pool. I will tell you a bit about some of the problems for bats. Habitat LossPeople sometimes chop down trees where bats areContinue reading “Bats”

I went to Twycross Zoo last week. There are some endangered animals there and I’m going to tell you about some of them. To see how endangered animals are, we use something called the Red List. There are different categories to show how endangered the animals are. These are: Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered,Continue reading “Endangered Animals”