Locals: "Get kids and families outdoors"
As hundreds of community submissions flow in, supporting local kids and families’ connection to the outdoors is shaping up as crucial to Wild Country vision
A community vision survey for the wild country stretching from Penguin and the Central Coast through to Cradle Mountain has already received over 500 detailed survey results.
An emerging theme coming through strongly in community workshops and early survey results is that locals see it as crucial that kids and families are supported to have connection with and access to the outdoors, and that the corridor of wild country stretching from Penguin to Cradle provides huge opportunity to improve community health, well-being and happiness.
Themes have included the need for it to be easy and free for NW Coast kids and families to get into the outdoors, for local schools to be supported and equipped to support outdoor activities for kids, and how valuable it is for families to have connections and stories that link them to this wild country across generations.
"I strongly believe that if you take children into natural settings, and I've seen this hundreds and hundreds of times, their anxiety just falls away. They come in touch with something that's bigger than themselves. I think it's particularly important now with mobile phones and such. The technology can be so damaging to young people if it's not controlled. An antidote to that is taking them into natural settings."
- Peter Marmion, former local school principal and now tour guide
“It is just so formative and so protective for kids to have regular time in the outdoors when they’re growing up. The wild country stretching from Penguin to Cradle is such a great asset to enable kids and families across the NW coast to get into the outdoors, and that is a message from locals that is coming through loud and clear.”
- Dr Phill Pullinger, GP and Coast to Cradle working group member
The community survey that is shaping the vision for the Wild Country stretching from Penguin to Cradle has received over 500 detailed community responses, and remains open here: Community Survey: https://kuno.earth/articles/community-survey-coast-to-cradle
As hundreds of community submissions flow in, supporting local kids and families’ connection to the outdoors is shaping up as crucial to Wild Country vision
A community vision survey for the wild country stretching from Penguin and the Central Coast through to Cradle Mountain has already received over 500 detailed survey results.
An emerging theme coming through strongly in community workshops and early survey results is that locals see it as crucial that kids and families are supported to have connection with and access to the outdoors, and that the corridor of wild country stretching from Penguin to Cradle provides huge opportunity to improve community health, well-being and happiness.
Themes have included the need for it to be easy and free for NW Coast kids and families to get into the outdoors, for local schools to be supported and equipped to support outdoor activities for kids, and how valuable it is for families to have connections and stories that link them to this wild country across generations.
"I strongly believe that if you take children into natural settings, and I've seen this hundreds and hundreds of times, their anxiety just falls away. They come in touch with something that's bigger than themselves. I think it's particularly important now with mobile phones and such. The technology can be so damaging to young people if it's not controlled. An antidote to that is taking them into natural settings."
- Peter Marmion, former local school principal and now tour guide
“It is just so formative and so protective for kids to have regular time in the outdoors when they’re growing up. The wild country stretching from Penguin to Cradle is such a great asset to enable kids and families across the NW coast to get into the outdoors, and that is a message from locals that is coming through loud and clear.”
- Dr Phill Pullinger, GP and Coast to Cradle working group member
The community survey that is shaping the vision for the Wild Country stretching from Penguin to Cradle has received over 500 detailed community responses, and remains open here: Community Survey: https://kuno.earth/articles/community-survey-coast-to-cradle
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