How Can we Engage Young People in the Countryside?

In today's increasingly urbanised and digital society, young people are more disconnected from nature and the countryside than ever before.

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How Can we Engage Young People in the Countryside?

In the absence of any kind of national plan to re-engage them with wildlife and ecosystems, how can parents and caregivers encourage kids to take an interest in the natural world, and what are the pitfalls to watch out for? 

George Browne and Marcus Janssen discuss how they have shared their love of fieldsports with their children, and how this has fostered a love of nature in them. They swap theories about the right approaches - especially with very young kids - as well as their respective successes and the times when things have not gone according to plan.

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