Children who have fewer opportunities to spend meaningful time in nature have completed 100,000 nature-related activities via the Generation Wild initiative.
Images: WWT/Nigel Wilson

Run by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a charity for wetlands and wildlife, the project targets in particular children from disadvantaged communities.

All of the activities in Generation Wild are designed to connect children with nature through five “pathways” – senses, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty.

This connection is enhanced through arts-based activities and WWT has developed “an extraordinary story” based on a central character, Ava, who is part-girl, part-osprey.

So far, more than 35,000 children across the country have heard the magical story of Ava and completed Ava’s nature connection activities at home, such as building a bird nest, making a bug hotel, and gazing at stars in the night-sky.

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