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Blog: Climate activism against eco-anxiety
Recounting her experience as a participant in COP26, the Chair of the Youth Climate Ambassadors for Wales Poppy Stowell-Evans reflects on the things that keep her grounded as a climate activist. Often, as a young climate activist, I’m asked about…...
Press release: Welsh organisations team up on climate change
The Cardiff-based Orchard Media & Events Group has agreed a partnership with leading climate charity Size of Wales, using their communications skills to help raise funds for forest communities around the world and raise awareness of the importance of tropical…...
Brazil: Defending Guarani forest territory from soy farming
Nicola Pulman
Nicola Pulman has a background in countryside management for conservation and working with local people. In 1998 she volunteered for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in Ghana, coordinating a conservation non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to conserving endangered areas of community forest…...
Blog: Reconnect with nature this Winter
Size of Wales Advocacy and Outreach Officer Angie Kirby discusses how and why you should use the festive period to try and reconnect with nature and soak up the natural beauty of Wales in Winter. In this fast-paced society we…...
Blog: Working together to plant a million trees in Boré
A partnership between the community of Boré in eastern Kenya and Wales is growing trees at the epicentre of the climate crisis. With your support, 2021 has seen this project reach new heights and improve lives along the way. Sitting…...
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What did Size of Wales get up to at COP26?
As world leaders gathered in Glasgow to discuss the climate crisis this month, Size of Wales staff and partners headed to COP26 to join the many thousands of activists, Indigenous Peoples and organisations calling for climate justice. Amplifying Indigenous voices…...
Deforestation Free Public Procurement Webinar: Tackling Wales’ Overseas Emissions Through Public Spending
Please join us for a knowledge-sharing event and Q&A on Deforestation Free Procurement. This event has now finished, but you can watch it back here: Hear from international policymakers leading the way on deforestation-free procurement and learn how public…...
Learning event: Sharing tree growing experiences
Join Size of Wales for our first ever international tree growing learning event. We will be bringing together organisations in Wales and their local partners who are supporting communities to grow trees in Africa and South-East Asia as part of…...
The benefits of bees and trees: Three stories from Mbale
By Jake MacMillan, Joanita Mbabazi, and Anna Harris As millions of trees are planted each year in Mbale, the local community enjoys a more stable climate. However, the trees also provide sustainable means to support local livelihoods in the area.…...
What Does Forest Protection Actually Look Like?
For Go Green Day 2021, Size of Wales is raising money for the amazing forest communities we work with. There are many ways forest communities can protect their tropical forests from deforestation. The situation from country to country, and forest…...
Practical ways to protect tropical forests
Published for Go Green Day 2021, this guide shares the many ways you can take action to stop deforestation. You download a PDF of this guide here. Harvested coffee cherries © Jenipher’s Coffi...
Event: Going Green in Wales and across the World
This event has now finished but you can watch the whole thing here: You can see Ilson Karai Okaju’s (Commissao Guarani Yvyrupa) speech here: – Go Green Day is a national day of climate action organised by Size of Wales.…...
Blog: Why Wales must take lead in tackling climate change
Recently announced Size of Wales Chair Carwyn Jones discusses climate change and what he hopes to achieve in his new role. This article originally appeared in the Western Mail on 24th May 2021. After standing down from the Senedd last…...
Carwyn Jones unveiled as new Chair of Trustees
Size of Wales is proud to announce the appointment of former First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones as our new Chair of Trustees. Carwyn was the Member of the Senedd for Bridgend for twenty-two years but recently stood down ahead…...