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...Sir David Attenborough backs plan...


Every child in every country is owed the teaching of natural history, to be introduced to the awe and wonder of the natural world, and to appreciate how it contributes to our lives


The government is considering introducing compulsory nature studies lessons for all pupils as part of a David Attenborough-backed plan to protect the natural world.

The Independent understands that the Department for Education (DfE) is actively looking at whether pupils could be made to take lessons focusing on biodiversity and ecology, after the step was recommended by a landmark government review published last month.

Introducing such lessons at all levels of education from primary upwards was a key recommendation of the Dasgupta review, which was launched by the government to come up with ways to change “how we think, act and measure economic success” while protecting nature.

The review’s recommendations were wholeheartedly endorsed by Britain’s leading naturalist Sir David, who described them as “a map for navigating a path towards the restoration of our planet’s biodiversity” and “the compass that we urgently need” to “save the natural world at what may be the last minute”.

The review, authored by eminent Cambridge economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, said the education system “should introduce nature studies from the earliest stages of our lives, and revisit them in the years we spend in secondary and tertiary education”.

It adds: “Every child in every country is owed the teaching of natural history, to be introduced to the awe and wonder of the natural world, and to appreciate how it contributes to our lives”.

“If we care about our common future and the common future of our descendants, we should all in part be naturalists.”


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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/government...112007975.html