Finlay Pringle’s News…
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...
Ocean Heros Trip to Canada June 26th to 1st July 2019
I am really looking forward to my trip to Vancouver. I am going to an ocean heroes boot camp where I will learn a lot more about the threats of ocean plastic. Along with the other invited children from around the world, including my friend Lilly Platt, I will be...
Global March for Whales in Edinburgh on Saturday 29th June 2019
My name is Ella Pringle. I am 10 years old and I love all cetaceans. I am organising a protest march in Edinburgh on Saturday 29th June with my mum. We are going to the Norwegian, Danish, Russian and Japanese consulates to give them a letter to ask them to stop...
Children’s Media Conference 2019
Invited to the Children's Media Conference 2019 in Sheffield as a Changemaker guest speaker. It's BIG, actually it is HUGE! An 8 minute slot on the 4th July ... chatter will mainly focus on Sharks! Plastic Pollution and Climate Change and how the media can help to...
Several Busy Weeks
My family went to John O Groats for Orcawatch last week and decided to school strike climate action for there.Friday 24th May was another Global Protest for Climate Action and we made our protest at the famous John O'Groats sign. Suzie Hall anti plastic campaigner...
Meeting Christiana Figueres
Friday 05 April 2019 Me and my sister Ella were invited by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh to the Edinburgh City Council gold medal ceremony which was awarded to Christiana Figueres for her work as head of the UNFCCC on climate change and creating the 2016 Paris climate...
