Over the past few months I've given talks to some wonderful local conservation groups, including the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Trust, BADCOG, Friends of Hemblington Church. Bure Valley Conservation Group and so on. What I invariably notice on these occasions is that the average age of the audience (and of the work parties on their websites) tends to be 60+
These groups - and many, many others around the country - do amazing work maintaining local habitats and recording their wildlife: their efforts are rarely publicised, never glamorous and often arduous and dirty. These lovely people are not counting raptors crossing the Straits of Gibraltar, looking for rare waders in Indo-china, visiting Albatross colonies in the Pacific nor any of the other vaunted 'projects' undertaken by high-profile post-grad 'conservation workers'. I do wonder just how much enthusiasm for the environment 'Generation Z' actually has...
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