Finlay Pringle’s News…
Nature Benefitting Mental Health
Ella and I wanted to do something to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. We called in to Ullapool Men's Shed last week to give them a copy of Joe Harkness' book 'Bird Therapy'. I met Joe at Birdfair 2019 and when he generously offered to give away some of his new...
How We Lowered Our Carbon Footprint
Last month The National newspaper in Scotland interviewed the Pringle family to find out about the changes they made to lower their carbon foot print in order to reduce their impact on the enviroment. There are lots of ways people can do the same without too much...
Twinkl
Really pleased to announce that the big education project that I have been working on for several months has now been launched. It has been difficult this year managing all the requests that people want me to get involved in and due to pressure of time, money and the...
Young Animal Hero Award 2019
Finlay, through the staff he met at the A Focus On Nature conference, was invited behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum to view their extensive shark collection. He spent a very happy hour chatting with the head curator of fish about their shared passion for...
To Edinburgh to Read the United Nations IPCC Report Outside Holyrood!
Wednesday, 25th September, took take part in a full reading of the United Nations IPCC report prior to the final debate on the Climate Bill and subsequent vote at Holyrood. Video clip of Fin's part of the reading and a few photos thanks to Dad, Geoff.
Birthday Boat Trip
Fin's original birthday boat trip with the family and friends with Hebridean Whale Cruises, Gairloch was weathered off, a change of date ensued. The boat was expertly Skippered by family friend Steve Truluck and our guide Célia Augereau went above and beyond to ensure...
Rewilding Scotland The BIG Picture Conference 2019 in Stirling
21st September 2019 was The Big Picture Conference in Stirling a day long series of talks and events about the re-wilding of Scotland. It was at an event in Edinburgh launching The Big Picture project that Finlay first met Chris Packham. There were some great and very...
Global Climate Strike in Ullapool
By the time we started our 40th weekly strike in Ullapool pictures were already coming in of the crowds on the streets in Australia estimated at 400k people. By the end of the day an estimated 4 million people had joined a climate strike somewhere in the world, the...
A Focus on Nature 2019
The AFON conference at the Natural History Museum, London Billed as being "The Biggest Celebration of Young Conservationists that the UK has ever seen!" An epic two day event with lots of interesting talks from some amazing young people and adults who are working with...
Ella Pringle’s Whale Protest March Edinburgh 29th June 2019
While Finlay was away on his travels in Canada. Ella and Rachael headed down to Edinburgh to organise a protest march to mark that Japan was planning to begin commercial whaling again on 01 July. The march commenced at 12:30 from Princes Street gardens and visited the...
BirdFair 2019
The BirdFair was a 3 day event, Fri – Sun 16-18 August. It’s billed as the ‘Glastonbury’ for birders and certainly didn’t disappoint. The weather was pretty challenging with several inches of rain falling on the Friday meaning wellies were required for the rest of the...
SMILE Fridays For Future meeting Lausanne Switzerland 05-09 August
Finlay and Ella Pringle were very excited, with 6 other Scottish climate activists, to travel to Switzerland to attend the Summer Meeting In Lausanne Europe (SMILE) Climate conference. There were 421 young people including Greta Thunberg, from 38 different countries,...
