Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah, British Jamiacan writer, dub poet and Rastafarian, sent us a selfie  with a #savethechildrenswood message to show support for our campaign to save the Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow.

Please sign our petition and join the campaign to save the Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow.  An increasing number of restrictions are being placed on children’s opportunities to play outside in nature, and as a consequence they are suffering. This is a phenomenum happening across the world, please show support for our campaign as this has implications for people in other part of UK and abroad.

Send in your pictures to childrenswood@gmail.com

Here is Benjamin’s poem for British woodlands

Trees Please

Leave de trees please

Cause de trees

Work wid de breeze

To put all living tings at ease,

So leave de trees please.

Yu see

Down in Somerset, England,

I know a tree

Dat is one thousand

An five hundred years old.

Dat is a wise tree

Dat is a tree I need

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To talk to,

Dat is a tree

We animals should listen to.

For millions of animals

Trees are a home,

Trees can help shelter yu home,

So leave de trees alone.

Trees mek oxygen.

Let me say dat again:

Trees mek oxygen,

So mek a tree yu fren.

Leave de trees please

Cause de trees

Work wid de breeze

To put all living tings at ease,

An they help de birds and bees

Old an wise are all of these,

So leave de trees please

Juss

Leave de trees please.