Biodiversity Projects

Sensory Garden

Inspired by the energy and enthusiasm of our own Terry Conner Becton & District Rotary Club has a new and exciting project to provide a Sensory Garden Trail at Ashley Junior School. Mr Ian Rix, Head Teacher of Ashley Junior School visited the Club to hear of...

Heart 4 Trees

Welcome to ESRAG’s ‘Heart4Trees’ programme. This is not a single project, but rather a cluster of many projects with the unifying theme of trees. Some projects are small with work being done by a few individuals: others are large with hundreds of participants from...

Connecting with Nature

Although trees are a major part of many ecosystems, there are other aspects of Nature to be considered.  For example, wildlife, flowers for beautification & better pollination.   LOCAL PROJECTS A good example of a Rotary club environmental project is Ponteland...

Gardens

A garden is one small part of the global environmental system where rotarians often have sole control and benefit. This place is the household garden – perhaps better to be thought of as the one piece of paradise for which we have sole responsibility. There are so...
SGG Rotary Tree Project

SGG Rotary Tree Project

Sustainable Global Gardens [SGG] has been promoting tree-planting in East Africa for several years. Most of the trees planted so far have been planted on small-scale farms and have been directly useful to the farmer. Such trees include both fruits [e.g. mango,...

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Seedballs in Kenya

Seedballs in Kenya

Seedballs present a simple but potentially very effective method of tree-planting and rewilding.  Four Rotary clubs in D1260, Barton le Clay, Brookman’s Park, Baldock and  Luton Someries are collaborating with 3 Kenyan clubs, Bungoma, Kakamega and Voi, as well as two...

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Mangrove Restoration

Mangrove Restoration

Mangrove restoration is one of the most effective ways of rapid climate change mitigation.  This is partly because much of the carbon found in such ecosystems is locked into the submarine sediments on which mangroves grow.  For this reason it has been estimated that...

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