FREE film showings of Climate Change - The Facts and Before The Flood.
Orla Roff (age 6) Petersfield Infant School
receiving her cash prize from Petersfield Town Clerk Neil Hitch.
Daniel Gradidge (age 7) Sheet Primary School
Standing with his winning design.
Sparkleface face-painting will be offering FREE animal, flora and fauna designs.
Local storyteller Faye Thompson brings her Orangutan’s Lemonade & Daisy to talk about the Rainforests.
The word ‘Orangutan’ means ‘Person of the Forest’.
Meet Coombes friendly environmental team (left to right – Elizabeth Boxall, Joanna Eastman, Craig Mills, Gareth Ainscough ACIEEM and Dr Sam Kelly MCIEEM)
Local resident, Tree Warden and nature enthusiast Robin Hart,
gives a talk about Trees at 12:45pm
Pricinpal Ecologist at Coombes UK
Sam has been working in ecology for over 20 years and has worked on projects spanning the UK and India. She studied her PhD at Liverpool University, which looked at the impacts of invasive pond weed on newt breeding and has gone on to specialise further in bat, dormouse and reptile ecology, especially the European adder. She is a passionate advocate for ecological sustainability and engagement and connectedness with the natural world, is a trustee of ARG UK and an active member of several local conservation groups.
I work as Principal Ecologist for Coombes UK, where I specialise in protected species and botanical surveys across the south of England. I am a passionate naturalist, with particular interest in the conservation of adders and other native reptiles, although my roots lay in aquatic botany and amphibian breeding conservation. I have been a trustee of Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK (ARG UK) since 2019 and am Secretary of Sussex Amphibian and Reptile Group (SxARG), with whom I engage in research into adder conservation, public engagement and connectedness to nature.
Dr Sam Kelly MCIEEM
Our friendly cafe The Plump Duck, based at the beautiful Petersfield Heath, provided the catering at our event.