There is another type of pollution we didn't mention yesterday and that is plastic pollution. Can you think why plastic might be such a problem from wildlife, particularly when it ends up in the sea? One of the main issues with plastic is that it does not degrade but can break down into smaller and [...]
Can you think of 3 types of marine pollution? There are lots of types of pollution that can make it's way into the sea, recent studies have shown that over 80% of the pollution found at sea comes from the land, either running into drains and waterways (rivers) which make their way to the sea [...]
Three species AWT conserves are the dartford warbler, the slow worm and the ormer. The dartford warbler is a species that had a population crash to only a few pair in the UK in the 60s and has since begun to recover after careful restoration. It is now amber listed by the RSPB, so it [...]
“It’s been a good year for the Glanville Fritillary!” “Hmm, the Ringed Plovers haven’t done so well this year” These are the kind of thing you’ll hear people who seem to know what they are talking about saying… but how do they know? Well, a lot of this kind of talk is anecdotal – based [...]
Alderney is home to quite a few species that need our help. One of these is the puffin - you might have been watching these on puffincam recently. There is a lot of activity on the cameras because the parent birds are bringing fish back to their chicks, which will be fledging in the next [...]
Welcome to the final module of LIVE - conservation and protection. So what is conservation? Conservation is the study of the loss of biodiversity around the world and research into ways humans can stop and reverse this loss. Can you think of any organisations near you that help conserve the environment? Extinction is the most [...]
The date 1066 is probably the easiest to remember of all English History. The Battle of Hastings, the last time England was successfully invaded by a foreign ruler. For the Channel Islands, the date is 933. That’s the year in which the islands were taken over by the Normans. They had already been given ‘Normandy’ [...]
So what do we know about the Channel Islands between AD 410 (when the Romans left Britain) and 1066 (when the Normans conquered Britain)? Roman Gaul was taken over by the Franks, from which it got the name France. From around the year 486 we were probably ruled by the Franks. Angles and Saxon invaders [...]
The six hundred years after the Romans left Guernsey are known as the Dark Ages. It wasn’t dark, but the world did get colder than it was before. The Huns, the Saxons, the Goths and the Franks came from the East looking for new lands. The Roman Empire fell apart trying to fight these peple [...]
By 56BC (we think) the Channel Islands were part of the Roman Empire. That doesn’t mean that the islands were full of Italians, it was the same people living here as before but Rome was in charge. Guernsey was first to take to Roman ways and there are over 50 places in that island where [...]