Finding My Place in Nature as a Young Parent  Blog by UKY4N member Melissa Leech Having a child halfway through your degree is probably not how everybody envisions their time at university, but that is what happened for me. At the beginning, despite how much I wanted my daughter, I felt a deep sadness that everything I had been working towards - a career in the wildlife and environmental sector - was over before it had begun. We’re often told, either directly or indirectly, t

Chalk stream's crystal-clear streams flow steadily through carpets of watercress and water crows-foot, with gravelly beds offering breeding sites for the critically endangered chalk stream salmon, as well as trout and lamprey. This rare habitat only forms in chalk landscapes where water bubbles up from chalk aquifers, resulting in mineral-rich, pure water which stays at the same temperature year-round. The author of this blog, Emma Pritchard volunteering at the river Ver. Gua

Young campaigners crochet tea bags crocheted to highlight the scale of pollutants brewing in Welsh waterways. Young campaigners unveiled a series of handmade crocheted tea bags  in the Senedd , each tagged with the names of agricultural pollutants currently “brewing” in Welsh waterways. The creative display invited politicians to confront the reality of what is steeping in the nation’s rivers and lakes - and why it is time to “spill the tea” on the scale of the problem. MSs f