A Life With...on Radio 4 26th-30th March

Phil Wilkins - Insects

Have a listen all week next week between 13.45 and 14.00 to my series interviewing people who are passionate about wildlife - A Life With....  The series kicks off on Monday with Dr Phil Wilkins who is mad about insects.

On Tuesday we take a trip to a waterway in Essex with water vole warrior Darren Tansley.

Darren Tansley - Water Voles

Then on Wednesday we take a dip in the sea to find British corals with Keith Hiscock.

Keith Hiscock - Coral specialist

Thursday it is discovering the miniature world of mosses and liverworts with Sam Bosenquet.

Sam Bosenquet - Mosses and Liverworts

Friday it is the lovely bubbly and very passionate (about seals) Sue Sayer.

Green Churches

Don't know how I missed this - but great stuff.  New Carmelite monastery to be a model of green design.

Environmental Education in African Schools

This is a short film I made on a conference I attended on putting environmental education into faith schools - teaching children through their faith about caring for the earth.  It was held by ARC (Alliance of Religions and Conservation).  70-80% of schools in Africa are somehow linked to faith institutions - in Kenya 70% of the population is either a Christian or Muslim.  Teaching the next generation about caring for this planet through faith teachings is a very good way of reaching many hearts and minds.

The next film is very short - I made it on the last morning.  Hassan in a teacher in a muslim school on the coast of Kenya.  He is passionate about nature and sees a link between traditional wisdom and Islamic teachings.