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Home Educated Wild Adventurers

We are a group of home-educated children in central England who have come together to find out more about our environment. We have named ourselves HEWA – Home Educated Wild Adventurers. Through the John Muir Trust jmt.org , which is a wild land conservation charity, we are working towards achieving the three levels of the John Muir environmental awards.

The levels are:

• Discovery (minimum 4 days):

• Explorer (minimum 8 days):

• Conserver (20 days over at least 6 months).

This website has been created to provide a record of our work and to share our experiences with others. We hope you find it interesting and that you will perhaps be inspired to do this yourselves.

What is the John Muir Award?

It’s an environmental Award scheme focused on wild places.

It encourages you to enjoy the outdoors, get to know more about nature and wild places, and do something to look after these places.

It isn’t a competition, and anyone can participate.

John Muir Award is biodiversity, it’s the variety of life. Biodiversity is all kind of living things, from the tiniest garden ant to the giant caledonian granny pine tree. Biodiversity is everywhere, in window box and wildwood, in roadside and rainforest, in snowfield and seaside and sky. Magnus Magnusson


 

 

Why is Biodiversity important?

We’re all part if this truly amazing diversity of life. More importantly, we need it! Biodiversity is the life support system for our planet and serves us in many ways, providing:

  • • Food, Medicines and other material
  • • A clean and healthy environment
  • • Colour and beauty in our surroundings
  • • Spiritual uplift and restorative therapy
  • • An important part of our arts cultures and traditions

Our care of biodiversity is vital. It’s important to protect wildlife and wild places not only for their own sake, but also to sustain our future well-being. A healthy environment in which to live and play is dependent on biodiversity.

What has Biodiversity got to do with the John Muir Award?

Biodiversity is all about wild places and nature-habitats and species that live there.