Finlay Pringle’s News…
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,...
Ocean Heroes Bootcamp Vancouver Canada
Finlay is home now and just about recovered from all his travelling! He had a fantastic time in Vancouver, Canada at the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp where he spent three days with 300 like minded children learning a host of new skills which he is looking forward to putting...
Change Maker Speech at The Children’s Media Conference 2019
Going Global speech at The Children's Media Conference in Sheffield today. Video thanks to Dad - Geoff Pringle more to come 🙂
Invitation to BirdFair 2019
I have been invited to take part on a youth panel during Birdfair 2019 – 16th-18th August along with 4 other young naturalists from the UK to answer questions about climate change and its effect / impact on wildlife. Really looking forward to this as Chris Packham...
