The Prince and Princess of Wales have previously spoken about the importance of children spending time outside in nature
The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit the gardens of the Natural History Museum(Image: Jonathan Brady/PA)
Prince William and Princes Kate are tagging along with pupils from Lewisham to a special visit to the Natural History Museum’s gardens. The royal couple will join in as the South London children go pond dipping.
The Natural History Museum gardens opened in 2024 featuring grassland, wetland and woodland habitats and are said to serve as a living laboratory, where visitors and scientists can identify and monitor wildlife in an urban environment.
Kate, the museum’s patron, and William will chat to youngsters joining activities aimed at helping them connect with nature. The princess has spoken in the past about the importance of children spending time outdoors and helped create the family-friendly Back To Nature play garden that was exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2019.
She also urged society to “reconnect to nature and celebrate a new dawn within our hearts” in a voiceover for Spring, the first of her series of social media videos celebrating the seasons released earlier this year.
The Natural History Museum gardens feature grassland, wetland and woodland habitats(Image: PA Wire / PA Images)
During their visit the Prince and Princess of Wales will be shown how cutting-edge technology is being used in the garden to inform the museum’s conservation and research biodiversity projects. A network of sensors collects environmental data which is used with environmental DNA to build a picture of all forms of life in the gardens.
As well as meeting schoolchildren from Lewisham, the couple will meet students from Manchester who have been creating new habitats on their school grounds through the National Education Nature Park initiative.
More than 7,500 schools, colleges and nurseries have got involved in the project to transform their grounds into nature-rich spaces – boosting biodiversity, green skills and wellbeing – under the project led by the museum working with the Royal Horticultural Society and commissioned by the Department for Education.
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