Can Fun and Games Help Save the Planet?
Can reliving favourite childhood games inspire you to act and help combat climate change?
Join us for an evening of fun in Climate Week. You can learn more about issues such as energy use, resource efficiency and climate change through playing games.
This event is part of the Climate Changing programme, which is supported by:
Principal sponsors Shell and Siemens
Major sponsor Ban ...
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The Science Museums Dana Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Green Wednesdays: screening of Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is a multi-award winning documentary following James Balog as he tries to gather undeniable evidence that our planet is changing. Witness his adventure through the Arctic as he captures stunning images of the shrinking glaciers.
This event is part of the Climate Changing programme, which is supported by:
Principal sponsors Shell and Siemens
Major sponsor Bank of America Merril ...
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The Science Museums Dana Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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A WILD NIGHT WITH BEAR GRYLLS - CHRISTCHURCH
Join Bear Grylls for an evening of wild discovery and dangerous entertainment as he shares his experiences of survival in some of the world’s toughest environments. During the 2 hour live show Bear will share his experiences of survival in some of the world’s toughest jungles, mountains and deserts. See breathtaking footage of some of the world’s most remote and hostile locations and find out ...
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CBS Canterbury Arena
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Christchurch
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New Zealand
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Nature Events
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The Zoological World of Edward Lear
Clemency Fisher is Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at National Museums Liverpool.
Edward Lear is most famous for his Nonsense Rhymes, such as “The Owl and the Pussycat” and “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat”, but he was also a talented zoological artist and described several new species of birds. As part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Lear’s birth in 1812, Dr Fisher will explore Lear’s time w ...
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The Royal Society
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Reading Rescue clean-up event
The theme is Waterways and Woodlands and will focus on the Kennet & Avon Canal, the River Thames and several small water bodies through the area. The event is open to anyone who wants to join to help keep Reading litter free ...
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Various locations throughout Reading
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Images of Nature
Come and marvel at some of the most beautiful, historic artworks and modern images of nature held by the Museum in our newly renovated gallery.
Experience how artists and scientists see the world in this important visual record of over 110 images that span 350 years to the present.
This year's temporary exhibition is 18th-century Australian artworks of the First Fleet journey as well a ...
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Natural History Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Subject Knowledge Update: Antarctica-s changing climate
Subject Knowledge Updates are a series of evening sessions each focusing on a different theme, covering the basic information for teaching that topic and providing up to date case study material and resources.
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Royal Geographical Society with IBG
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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London Wild Bird Watch
On 20th April 2012 Upper Street Events will be Launching the London Wild Bird Watch at the London Wetland Centre. Bird watching is officially the fastest growing pastime in the UK.
London Wild Bird Watch aims to create a unique blend of “Shop, Learn and Do” for everyone who has an existing or growing interest in bird and wildlife watching. That includes people feeding birds in their garden who ...
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London Wetland Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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The Reality of Change
What gets people to change their habits? What really makes us tick? Meet the renowned architect Sunand Prasad whose designs have changed lives, the campaigner Martin Kirk who influences our relationship with food, and the young climate activist who promotes new lifestyles through intergenerational dialogue.
Sunand Prasad, co-founder of the architecture studio Penoyre and Prasad and former RIBA ...
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The Science Museums Dana Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Course: Introduction to Botany
This one day course is designed as a general introduction to the world of flowering plants and is suitable for non-scientists and those that would like to have a deeper understanding of the plants around them.
This one day course is designed as a general introduction to the world of flowering plants and is suitable for non-scientists and those that would like to have a deeper understanding of t ...
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Kew Gardens
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Surrey
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Oceanology International
Oceanology International is the global forum where industry, academia and government share knowledge and connect with the marine technology and ocean science community, improving their strategies for measuring, exploiting, protecting and operating in the world’s oceans. ...
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ExCeL London
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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River Thames deep clean
Volunteer and take advantage of the lowest tide of the year to do a big litter pick on the River Thames foreshore. Part of the Big Waterways Clean-Up 2012.
Close to Island Gardens DLR station. ...
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Newcastle Drawdock
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Channelsea spruce up
Volunteer with the Big Waterways Clean-Up 2012 and help improve the Channelsea River, part of the Bow Back Rivers, in East London. Tasks will involve vegetation management.
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The Greenway
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Queen Mary University Regent-s Canal clean-up
Volunteer with the Big Waterways Clean-Up 2012 and help improve the Regent's Canal near Queen Mary University in Mile End. ...
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Behind the New Globe Pub
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Regent-s Canal and Hertford Union Canal clean-up
Volunteer with the Big Waterways Clean-Up 2012 and help improve the Regent's Canal and Hertford Union Canal in East London.
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Bow Wharf
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Tree planting at Bow Creek
Tree planting at Bow Ecology Park, on Bow Creek. Part of the Big Waterways Clean-Up 2012. Volunteers needed to help improve the canals and rivers in East London. ...
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Bow Ecology Park
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Animal minds: from computation to evolution
Recent discoveries of striking similarities in cognitive abilities between humans and other animals have fuelled attempts to understand the minds of other species and their relation to our own. This interdisciplinary meeting will bring together disparate fields to develop a theoretical infrastructure for cognition research, to generate testable predictions as to the evolutionary basis and computat ...
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The Royal Society, London
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Plants in Peril exhibition
This exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art presents illustrations of endangered plants from over thirty countries around the world.
This exhibition presents paintings from the Shirley Sherwood Collection of endangered plants from over thirty countries around the world, with particular emphasis on South African plants. For its size, South Africa has the greatest diversity o ...
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Kew Gardens
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Surrey
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Christmas tree recycling at Kew Gardens
After the festivities, bring your Christmas tree along to Kew Gardens to be recycled.
Recycle your Christmas tree at Kew Gardens.
Please bring along your Christmas tree, minus decorations, to Kew Gardens after Christmas and have it recycled by our very kind Arboretum team! ...
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Kew Gardens
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Surrey
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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london sinfonietta - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Jexper Holmen new work
Lefteris Papadimitriou new work World Premiere
Agatha Zubel new work
Cesary Duchnowski new work
Larry Goves Things that are blue, things that are white and things that are black
London Sinfonietta
André de Ridder conductor
Sarah Nicolls piano
RNCM String Ensemble
Sound Intermedia
Festival favourites London Sinfonietta return to this year's hcmf with a ...
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Lawrence Batley Theatre
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Huddersfield
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Exhibitions Land Rover Global Conservation Partners
Land Rover Global Conservation Partners
An exhibition highlighting Land Rover’s support of global conservation partners. ...
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Royal Geographical Society
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Flood risk in the 21st Century: is it going to get worse?
Lecture - RGS-IBG members + one guest Flood risk in the 21st Century: is it going to get worse? by Professor Stuart Lane
Is there a trend towards a wetter and riskier future, perhaps linked to climate change, or are natural variations of the climate more significant? Stuart discusses whether policy makers are missing the real reasons why areas are at risk from flooding ...
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Royal Geographical Society
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Water Wars from Antenna
It takes a huge amount of fresh water to grow food. Supplies are dwindling because of poor water management, increasing demand and our changing climate. As the world’s population explodes, we have to ask… do we fight for fresh water now or wait for a global food crisis?
Explore the five featured innovations designed to help tackle fresh water shortages. Play our our interactive game ‘Drench’ br ...
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The Science Museum
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Budapest Jazz Club at The 606 Club
Budapest Jazz Club at The 606 Club
Three nights of incredible music with the jazz superstars of Hungary and Britain celebrating eight years of cooperation between the leading clubs of the two capitals.
In cooperation with the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London
Programme:
Wednesday 2 November
First Set: George Vukán (pn), Andy Cleyndert (bs), Clark Tracey (drs)
Second Set: Daniel ...
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The 606 Club
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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The Politics of Climate Change
If climate change goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people and for many policymakers too, it tends to be a back-of-the-mind issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns.
Political action and intervention on local, national and international levels are g ...
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RSA
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Lecture - Travelling tales of a modern day plant hunter
Join Tom Hart Dyke and find out more about his passion for plants. Tom has travelled the world collecting plants and his garden is home to the national collection of eucalyptus. Tom also has an impressive cactus display and a temperate house.
Tom Hart Dyke first shot to international prominence in 2000 when he was kidnapped in the Colombian jungle on a plant hunting expedition that went dangero ...
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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WildlifeXpo
A brand new wildlife exhibition is coming to London on 14th and 15th October 2011.
WildlifeXpo will be held at the Alexandra Palace and will focus on how wildlife watching is vital for conservation. WildlifeXpo will be run in conjunction with the Wildlife Trusts, and £2 from each ticket sold will be donated to your nominated Wildlife Trust. The exhibition will encompass a broad spectrum of ...
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Alexandra Palace
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Lecture - Ethnobotany of the home and hearth
Join Will McClatchey as he explores how and when a community becomes “indigenous” to an environment, and the process of developing strong patterns of interaction with a flora.
All of our ancestors originated in East Africa and spread from there to a series of new environments. In each new location they must have learned about the plants growing there including ones that would have been new to t ...
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Fire and ice: What makes volcanoes dangerous?
Some volcanoes are gentle, others inconvenient, and others still, deadly. What makes volcanic eruptions explosive?
What happens when volcanoes are covered in ice, as in Iceland or Chile - and what happens when the ice melts?
Dr Hugh Tuffen has visited volcanoes across the world - from the long-extinct Scafell Pike in the Lake District to Chile, New Zealand and Japan. As a Royal Society R ...
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The Manchester Museum
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Manchester
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Towpath Tidy in Camden, London
Come down and get involved in a Towpath Tidy event on your local waterway. Get out-doors, get active and make a difference to the historic Regent's Canal.
On this Saturday activity we will be giving the waterway a much-needed make-over. We will be collecting and removing floating litter and cutting back vegetation to make sure boats and towpath-users can pass easily along the canal. ...
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The Regents Canal
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Founded in 1913, the Chelsea Flower Show is an extraordinary event and famous all around the world. Eight hundred of the greatest exponents of imaginative garden design spend nearly a month creating a horticultural wonderland over an 11-acre site in Chelsea's Royal Hospital gardens. Most of London society, including the Queen, regards the Chelsea Flower Show as a highpoint of the London summer ...
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Royal Hospital Chelsea
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Pond planting demonstrations
Help provide a haven for wildlife, as well as making your garden look attractive. Learn what native plants to choose for your pond and how to plant them. ...
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London Wetland Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Big Wild Cats
We love and fear big wild cats and they are part of our cultural imagination. Join psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe in a discussion of "the wild predator within" with award-winning film-makers Amanda Barrett and Owen Newman, and see clips from their latest wildlife documentaries. ...
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the Dana Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Frontline Conservation: Bringing Tigers Back from the Brink
Joseph Smith presents unique insights into the front-line struggles of tiger conservation, and reveals some of the secrets of the work that is being done to protect the Tiger.
As recently as one hundred years ago, more than 100,000 wild tigers (Panthera tigris) roamed the forests and grasslands of Asia.Today, less than 3,500 tigers remain, occupying just 7% of their historic range. With the thr ...
Event at:
Asia House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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Children-s lecture: Animal diaries, by Rory Wilson
Animals can now write their own diaries, Rory explains how his automatic diaries can help us to understand animals’ secret lives and to advance conservation. ...
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Royal Geographical Society
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London
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United Kingdom
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Nature Events
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