If you love crafts and you love animals, here’s a great chance to get crafty for animals who need help!

The National Animal Welfare Trust  have 6 re-homing centres in the south of England.  And they also have an NAWT Craft Club.   This is a great chance to join a team of supporters who get crafty to help the NAWT improve facilities at their centres, or to help fundraise by making items the charity can sell at events and open days.

Ideas include:

• Bunting
• Crochet cat balls
• Pet blankets
• Shopping bags
• Home-made cards
• Easter Egg hats

My Auntie Susan (actually in New Zealand) loved to knit and she loved cats so she began knitting blankets and squares for the local rescue centre.   She ended up being a feature in the local paper there and it gave her a real purpose and great pleasure to know her knitting was helping cats in the charity’s care.

One supporter made these lovely greeting cards for the NAWT 
©NAWT

Find out more and how to contact the NAWT here.

Does your search engine plant trees when you search for stuff online?

If not, please take a look at Ecosia.org. 

It's a rather amazing search engine because every time you search you can help plant a tree and it won't cost you anything!  On average it takes 45 searches to plant a tree but these days that won't take long to add up!

Ecosia's goal is to plant one billion trees and they've just hit the 40 million tree mark - so 40 million trees have been planted as a result of people using their search engine to search for stuff online.

Not only that, but you can buy t-shirts - and they'll plant 20 trees for every t-shirt you buy.  I bought one and I love the quality and feel of it - and best of all, I know my purchase is helping to plant trees :-) 

So take a look at Ecosia and plant trees as you search! 

Please can you help the Tongass National Forest, America's largest national forest?  It's in Alaska. 

I had an email this morning in my inbox from the Sierra Club, an organisation which was founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892. 

The Tongass National Forest has been under a Roadless Rule protection in South East Alaska. The Trump Administration is going to remove that protection and allow clear cutting and road construction to go ahead.  This could happen within the next couple of weeks if we don't put a stop to it. 

The Sierra Club, which has protected 250 million acres, say that Senator Lisa Murkowski and her Big Timber-backed allies endorsed the deal – and it will cause untold environmental destruction.

Ways to get involved:

Donate

The Sierra Club is mobilising opposition to the agreement, pushing for people to be heard, and hauling the Trump administration back into court.  They need donations to do this. The Sierra Club is ramping up legal and legislative teams and organising allies elsewhere, where similar deals will imperil forests and wildlife.

If you can donate, please do – and help the Sierra Club protect the last wild places from being criss-crossed by roads and clear cut.

Sign this Petition

The Alaska WIlderness League has a petition (which I think is for the US only because I couldn't sign it) asking the US Forest Service to continue its roadless protection of the area.  Sign the petition with the Alaska Wilderness League here.  You can also donate to help the League in its work. 

It’s time to give nature and the natural world a break and for us all to stop destroying it and I'm talking world wide here, not just in one country.  

Find out more about the damage the Trump Administration is ready to inflict on Alaska and how you can get involved at the Alaska Wilderness League's website here.