Burkina Faso, in West Africa, has been fighting with desertification and climate change, and has seen a progressive degradation of its forested landscapes due to the expansion of agriculture.
Burkina Faso: Planting The ‘Great Green Wall’
Serenading Plants
A recent survey shows whose music is played the most to people’s plants….
Woods & Wild Children
“Many children were no longer allowed to roam the woods, even before the threat of Covid.”
Gold Leaves
“Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out
The year and I are old.”
“Delicious Autumn”
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise.”
Nature’s Most Beautiful Gift
Images by Rosie Hopkins
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see: Albert Einstein
Nature Notes From Close To Home – Buds!
signs of Spring in an Orkney garden
Christmas Tree Collection in February
The real trees collection will be carried out during the week beginning Monday 3 February.
Scotland’s Future: Planting Mountaintop Forests
Trees for Life is establishing a 700-acre mountaintop woodland of 100,000 trees at its Dundreggan Conservation Estate in Glenmoriston near Loch Ness.
Facing Up To Mother Nature
Photograph by Orkney News reader Rosie Hopkins
