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Jobs: 60 adverts for posts included in this edition.
Apprenticeship, trainee and interns: One advert included in this edition
This week 6-12 February is National Apprenticeship Week. Find out more about Apprenticeships and Interns, posts available and how to advertise your vacancies here.
Volunteers: This month's edition includes CJS Focus on Volunteering in full, click here.
CJS Updates and other useful information
A Meet the CJS Team post: 20 February 2023 is Love Your Pet Day
Second article from our Featured Charity: The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
Features and In Depth Articles: 10 features and articles this month plus details of six re-shared featrues
CJS Focus: CJS Focus on Volunteering in association with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) included in full.
Details of two articles from previous CJS Focus editions
News from the month
Training and Events: Calendar of events and short courses occurring in April plus additions made over the past month.
Jobs: 60 adverts for posts included in this edition.
Apprenticeship, trainee and interns: One advert included in this edition
This week 6-12 February is National Apprenticeship Week. Find out more about Apprenticeships and Interns, posts available and how to advertise your vacancies here.
Volunteers: This month's edition includes CJS Focus on Volunteering in full, click here.
CJS Updates and other useful information
A Meet the CJS Team post: 20 February 2023 is Love Your Pet Day
Second article from our Featured Charity: The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
Features and In Depth Articles
The elephant in the room by Nigel Jones, Project Leader at APP Studio UX
Sustainable Communications: what is it and how do you embrace it? By Mark Sutcliffe, communications consultant at Salar Media Services
How Green Infrastructure Standards can deliver better placemaking By Sophie Jones, Communications and Learning Manager at Building With Nature
For World Wetlands Day which was on 2 February. - Wetlands, flooding, and floodplains. Arguably the most abused landscape in Britain? By Professor Neil Entwistle, Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience at University of Salford, Manchester
24 January was the International Day of Education and we profiled the National Association for Environmental Education - Living and Working as though Nature Mattered By Professor William Scott, NAEE Chair of Trustees
Last week (30 January to 5 February) was National Storytelling Week - Writing a Sustainable Future By Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
Featured for Squirrel Appreciation Day on 21 January - Bioacoustics as a tool for red squirrel conservation By Will Cresswell, PhD candidate University of Bristol
As part of our Apprenticeship Week coverage we're sharing a job profile of a Trainer/Assessor – Countryside and Water Environment at Bridgwater and Taunton College.
We also interviewed Anna: Assistant Apprentice Ranger on Countryside worker level 2 apprenticeship with the National Trust
CJS Editorial Assistant Emily wrote a piece for Reclaim Social Media day which was on Tuesday: Don't Feed the Trolls
Ahead of World Seagrass Day on 1 March - The importance of saving the worlds seagrass By Bethan Thomas, Communications and Engagement Lead at Project Seagrass
CJS Focus: CJS Focus on Volunteering in association with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) included in full.
8 articles and 80 voluntary roles along with lots of volunteering opportunities across the UK so have a look through the regions for something you can get involved in.
Features from CJS Focus on Working with Wildlife in association with The Wildlife Trusts.
Careers in wildlife rehabilitation, where to start and what to expect By: George Bethell, Learning and Engagement Officer at Secret World Wildlife Rescue who gives us a verbal tour around the Centre. More information here or read the article here.
Job Profile: Senior Zookeeper at British Wildlife Centre By: Millie Sewell. Millie works closely with a wide range of British mammals, reptiles, and birds providing them with the best care possible enabling them to thrive within captivity. More information here or read the article here
News from the month
Training and Events: Calendar of events and short courses occurring in April plus additions made over the past month.
Contents:
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Jobs Full jobs table of information included at bottom of email
60 adverts for posts included in this edition.
Please note adverts are deleted as they reach the closing date.
Apprenticeship, trainee and interns
This week 6-12 February is National Apprenticeship Week. Find out more about Apprenticeships and Interns, posts available and how to advertise your vacancies here.
One advert included here: Working with Rivers Graduate Placement Scheme with NatureScot [more]
This month's edition includes CJS Focus on Volunteering in full, click here.
CJS Updates and other useful information
A Meet the CJS Team post: 20 February 2023 is Love Your Pet Day. As
you are probably aware the dogs form an integral part of the CJS Office
Team, some of you even asked us for more updates about them in the last
readers survey. Life is not always plain sailing when you have pets so
for Love Your Pet Day we're sharing an update about Office Dog Flora.
What's
your after dinner routine? Once the last plate is dried and put away I
get nudged by a cold, wet, black nose saying: "It's trick training
time".[more]
Second article from our Featured Charity: The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
This time we're looking at how you can get involved with their vital work. Citizen science, conservation and a changing world written by David Wembridge (Mammal Surveys Coordinator), Laura Bower (Conservation Officer) & Emily Sabin (Water Vole Officer).
Wildlife conservation relies on an extraordinary workforce. Across
the country, tens of thousands of local experts are walking along
hedgerows and waterways, in community orchards and back gardens and over
Ordnance Survey grid squares they barely know, collecting data on buds
and birds, butterflies and bats, and doing the groundwork of
conservation. Recording species and habitats as part of ongoing surveys is at the
core of conservation, providing information about how our world is
changing. We need to know what we’re losing, where and how quickly, and
whether efforts to save it are working. [more]
Features and In Depth Articles
The elephant in the room by Nigel Jones, Project Leader at APP Studio UX
Have
you really considered the environmental cost of those paper leaflets
for your visitor site? When you really take a close look at a clean
sheet of paper, on it's face it wouldn’t strike you as polluting, but it
really is. There’s no two ways about it. To see the true carbon
footprint of paper and how more people are opting to move to digital
information for their visitors, it might shock you! [more]
Sustainable Communications: what is it and how do you embrace it? By Mark Sutcliffe, communications consultant at Salar Media Services
Some
great ideas of how to make your communications more sustainable.
Everyone is so busy and there are so many options for promotion but are
you always getting the most from your time? Work out how much
time/money you are spending on digital marketing and ask yourself if you
can comfortably continue carrying this overhead. If the answer is a
resounding ‘no’ then it’s time to re-assess and re-prioritise. [more]
How Green Infrastructure Standards can deliver better placemaking By Sophie Jones, Communications and Learning Manager at Building With Nature
High-quality
green infrastructure (GI) plays a critical role in placemaking,
offering a nature-led design approach that delivers biodiversity gains,
nature
recovery and climate resilient development, whilst also
delivering healthy, inclusive communities at a neighbourhood and
landscape-scale, with practical and impactful nature-based solutions.
Building with Nature,the UK’s first GI benchmark, provides developers
and policy-makers with an evidence-based definition of high-quality GI
and how to deliver it. [more]
For World Wetlands Day which was on 2 February.
Wetlands, flooding, and floodplains. Arguably the most abused landscape in Britain? By Professor Neil Entwistle, Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience at University of Salford, Manchester
Did
you know we're witnessing the near complete destruction of wetland
habitats on floodplains across England? The University of Salford has
been looking at this in a lot of detail and recent research has
discovered that on the 555 UK floodplains they studied, 85% of rivers
had no wetland associated with them at all, AND 25% of all wetland
plants and animals are now at risk of extinction. [more]
24 January was the International Day of Education and we profiled the National Association for Environmental Education
Living and Working as though Nature Mattered By Professor William Scott, NAEE Chair of Trustees
The
National Association for Environmental Education UK is aware that many
young people who follow environmental courses and qualifications do so
with a career in mind. But learning about how you can support the
planet needs to start in primary school & be built in to everyone’s
education surely? [more]
Last week (30 January to 5 February) was National Storytelling Week
Writing a Sustainable Future By Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
Can
we write for a sustainable future? Denise Baden, author of Habitat Man
believes we can! By running the GreenStories Project, she aims to move
beyond preaching to the converted to share climate solutions using
fiction. This year they have been working with Herculean Climate
Solutions
and the Climate Fiction Writer’s League to compile an
anthology of climate solutions wrapped in short stories. Each story
linking to where
more details on the solutions embedded in the story
can be found. The key goal is to inspire readers to take action and
make it as easy as
possible for them to do so. [more]
Featured for Squirrel Appreciation Day on 21 January
Bioacoustics as a tool for red squirrel conservation By Will Cresswell, PhD candidate University of Bristol
The
traditional way to monitor red squirrel populations is via manual
survey methods, which are labour intensive & require experienced
observers. Will, a PhD student at University of Bristol is exploring
whether bioacoustics can be used to monitor squirrels, slow the spread
of the grey and keep reds safely in their strongholds whilst expanding
their reach. The study is supported by Mammal Society. [more]
As part of our Apprenticeship Week coverage we're sharing a job profile of a Trainer/Assessor – Countryside and Water Environment at Bridgwater and Taunton College. Read this one here and see more profiles here.
We also interviewed Anna: Assistant Apprentice Ranger on Countryside worker level 2 apprenticeship with the National Trust Anna had tried a number of roles, but fancied a change that would allow her to follow her passion for nature and the outdoors and this apprenticeship was the perfect fit. [more]
CJS Editorial Assistant Emily wrote a piece for Reclaim Social Media day which was on Tuesday
Don't Feed the Trolls
If you’ve spent any real time beneath the surface of the internet
you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Don’t feed the Trolls’ and it’s
probably the best piece of advice you can get, especially when it comes
to social media. [more]
Ahead of World Seagrass Day on 1 March
The importance of saving the worlds seagrass By Bethan Thomas, Communications and Engagement Lead at Proejct Seagrass
If
you’ve never heard of seagrass, you’re not alone. It is the hidden
wonder of the marine world. Seagrasses form a complex ecosystem that
offers shelter for many diverse marine species. They also draw in vast
quantities of carbon and can lock this away in their sediment for
thousands of years.
The Proejct's goal is to make seagrass a
familiar habitat to everyone, so it is no longer overlooked but given
the attention it deserves. Get involved
with Project Seagrass this
World Seagrass Day by spreading the word, attending one of our events or
by going out and spotting seagrass with SeagrassSpotter. [more]
Our lovely articles deserve more than one reading and sometimes they
get lost in the general noise of busy social media feeds. We're
including basic details of these features and articles which have been
shared for a second time across social media.
This month there are seven reshared features, see the details here.
CJS Focus on Volunteering in association with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) included in full.
8 articles and 80 voluntary roles along with lots of volunteering opportunities across the UK so have a look through the regions for something you can get involved in.
Features from CJS Focus on Working with Wildlife in association with The Wildlife Trusts.
Careers in wildlife rehabilitation, where to start and what to expect By: George Bethell, Learning and Engagement Officer at Secret World Wildlife Rescue who gives us a verbal tour around the Centre. More information here or read the article here.
Job Profile: Senior Zookeeper at British Wildlife Centre By: Millie Sewell. Millie works closely with a wide range of British mammals, reptiles, and birds providing them with the best care possible enabling them to thrive within captivity. More information here or read the article here.
Several big announcement from Government this month:
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Thérèse
Coffey detailed plans stating that farmers central to food production
and environmental action. Joint announcement from Defra, Natural England
and the Forestry Commission outlining an ambitious roadmap for a
cleaner, greener country. Separately Natural England unveils new Green
Infrastructure Framework. With responses from Woodland Trust, NFU, The
Wildlife Trusts and CPRE. whilst the The Climate Change Committee says a
lack of leadership is preventing essential investment to prepare the UK
for climate change.
There was a bombshell from Wildlife and Countryside Link: “An
economic and environmental wrecking ball” – new figures reveal ripping
up of retained EU laws could cost £82bn for the UK. The Wildlife Trusts
also denounced the bill and gave the Government a list of the top 10
issues for nature’s recovery in 2023 - Northumberland Wildlife Trust.
In more cheerful news anew study finds that trees and woodlands provide
over £400m each year in fight against flooding, published by Defra and
the Forestry Commission.
Red Squirrel Appreciation Day was a couple of weeks ago and of course that meant squirrel news! Red squirrel release at Castle Ward sparks fresh hope say Ulster Wildlife and from Squirrel Accord a new action plan to save England’s red squirrels. There was fabulous news for Britain’s loneliest old bat too as the Greater mouse-eared bat population doubles - to 2! “This is a hugely important discovery” said Bat Conservation Trust.
Calendar of events and short courses occurring in April plus additions made over the past month.
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