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Welcome to Cymru Siren!
Introduction
Some of you may have seen us over the summer at various events across Wales. We attended Pembrokeshire Fish Festival, Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Royal Welsh Show and Wales' National Eisteddfod in Mold. At these we launched and promoted our One Planet Campaign footprint calculator, which measures a person's impact on the planet.
This new online eco-test – which can be found at wwf.org.uk/calculator – asks simple questions about your lifestyle, such how often you travel abroad, how you heat your home and where you buy your food. It then calculates how many planets your lifestyle requires. What's more, at the end of the questionnaire WWF suggests easy and practical ways you can reduce your impact on the planet.
The average ecological footprint of a person in Wales is 5.25 global hectares – roughly the size of six rugby pitches. If everyone in the world had this impact, we'd need nearly three planets – but this is far above the world average.
Climate change is one of the symptoms of our current overuse of the planet's natural resources, but we can all do our bit to conserve resources and combat global warming. If we all consume more wisely, save energy and cut down on our waste we can produce less carbon dioxide and tread more lightly on the Earth.
Read on to find out which well-known faces have been supporting our campaign and to discover what we've been up to in other areas of our campaigning.
Morgan Parry
Head of WWF Cymru
The average ecological footprint of a person in Wales is 5.25 global hectares – roughly the size of six rugby pitches. If everyone in the world had this impact, we'd need nearly three planets – but this is far above the world average.
Climate change is one of the symptoms of our current overuse of the planet's natural resources, but we can all do our bit to conserve resources and combat global warming. If we all consume more wisely, save energy and cut down on our waste we can produce less carbon dioxide and tread more lightly on the Earth.
Read on to find out which well-known faces have been supporting our campaign and to discover what we've been up to in other areas of our campaigning.
Morgan Parry
Head of WWF Cymru
