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Spending time in nature makes us happier and healthier.
Nature = Health
The world around us shapes everyone’s health and wellbeing.  This is especially true of the natural world.
Nature-based solutions
Natural habitats can store and sequester carbon, help prevent flooding, reduce soil erosion, improve soil fertility, provide pollination services, allow nature’s recovery at sea, and support improvements to people’s physical and mental wellbeing.
Make a difference to your pupils' mental health and wellbeing
Make a difference to your pupils' mental health and wellbeing
Nature-based solutions reference list
Nature-based solutions reference list
A Natural Health Service
In this blog, Dom Higgins, Nature and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts, makes the case for a natural health service in the UK to benefit all our mental health and wellbeing
Improving people’s health and wellbeing through a 25 Year Environment Plan
Dom Higgins, Nature and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts, comments on the Government’s ambition to improve people’s health and wellbeing through a 25 Year Environment Plan
Climate solutions
We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline, and the loss of wildlife and wild places leaves us ill-equipped to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to change.
Mental Health and The Wildlife Trusts
Part of our Mental Health Awareness Series. Dom Higgins is the Health and Wellbeing Manager for The Wildlife Trusts.
Peatland solutions
The UK’s peatland soils store around 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon, but are heavily degraded and release the equivalent of 23 million tonnes of CO2 every year. Restored peatlands can capture more carbon, reduce flooding, clean our water, and allow wildlife to thrive.
Tackling climate change: nature-based solutions - St Cross College, Tuesday 18 June
This link will open on the BBOWT website.
Join BBOWT and RSWT at this panel on the challenges and opportunities of using nature-based solutions in our region and more widely.
Nature Walk for Wellbeing
This link will open on the Gwent Wildlife Trust website.
Join us for a nature walk around Magor Marsh with our Wild Health Officer Rose.