November Updates

Another busy month for environmental stewardship at Dover.

Green Carpet Awards

I'm pleased to announce that Dover campus picked up an environmental award at the annual Green Carpet Awards earlier this month. The awards are sponsored by National Geographic Magazine that celebrate school's environmental initiatives. Members of the Rainforest Restoration Project collected the award on behalf of all the school groups as the film crew had made a film in the nursery to show during the awards.

It's always nice to get awards but we know at Dover we've a long way to go to meet our ambition to become a leading school in environmental stewardship......

You can see some of these guys in action on the right as in the past two weeks they have planted two critically endangered Shorea sumatrana saplings in the forest we are growing behind the facilities department. These are some of the tallest rainforest trees in the world, highly valued for their timber. This fact and the widespread clearance of Sumatran forests for palm oil plantations have resulted in this IUCN conservation status which is one step away from Extinction. It's great that we are helping conserve the species on campus, but if you'd rather see them protected in the wild why not join the campaigns by the Rainforest Action Network...it can be as easy as clicking a mouse to sign a petition.






Solar for Dover

Another positive step you can take for sustainability would be to adopt a Solar panel at Dover...or get your tutor group or family or football team to sponsor. Read the great story of this student initiative here