RICHARD NEGUS IS A PROFESSIONAL HEDGE-LAYER AND WRITER. HE IS A KEEN WILDFOWLER AND HAS A PASSION FOR GREY PARTRIDGES
Educating and instructing youngsters in the ways of countryside and conservation is an easy task when the young people are aged between six and 12 years old. Primaryaged children are simplicity itself. To harness their spaniel-like joy for life, merely enable them to get mucky, touch dead things and some sharp things and hunt for animal tracks. Before you can say ‘Dr Mike Swan’, you have created a classroom of young conservationists.
Teenage ‘peregrines’
When you stray into the realms of the teenager, things become more problematic. With this group, the attention spans and reactions are a mixed bag. At one recent
