GREEN-fingered Jacob Stokes is now the
proud recipient of an award from the RSPB after creating a pond in his garden.
The conservation charity presented the
eight-year-old, from Fareham, with the Gold Wildlife Action award after being
so impressed with his efforts.
Jacob submerged a vegetable trough into
the soil and surrounded it with stones to create a rockery.
He wanted to encourage newts to hibernate
and he included a sunken ceramic flowerpot as refuge for frogs.
The wildlife enthusiast, who is a member
of his local RSPB Wildlife Explorers group, even wrote a letter to 10 Downing
Street expressing his thoughts about proposals to cull buzzards.
He said: ‘I’ve enjoyed encouraging
wildlife and helping them.’
Jacob’s mum Richenda Stokes said: ‘We’re
really proud of Jacob. He has loved working towards this award and is already
planning his next wildlife project.’
The awards were introduced in 1995 and
more than 10,000 youngsters have taken part. More than 100 ponds and more than
200 wildlife gardens have been created as part of the awards, as well as 4,500
nestboxes.
Around 2,000 children have written to
their MPs on issues from protecting the marine environment to recycling waste.
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