Standing up for whats' right and trying to make a difference can seem scary to most people but when you have social anxiety it seems almost impossible. When I first started to get involved with environmental activism , I felt like I wasn't achieving anything because I was too nervous to go to protests or share my thoughts on social media. My social anxiety kept telling me that people were going to mock me or hate me because I was being too much of a "tree hugger". Then last year when I started doing a conservation course at college I realised that even if people did make fun of me they were...

Hi there, Below are my thoughts and opinions on a video by the United Nations about plastic pollution on our planet. To be honest with you, the images within the video were frightening. Sea birds dying, sea related animals suffering; they were the most horrible scenes I’ve ever seen in my life. That is why I began my journey of saving the environment, which I hope to do not by myself, but encourage everyone to participate. From my research last year, more than 73% of fish in the Irish Sea contained elements of plastic. My instant thought was "Can you imagine eating a fish with a 73% chance...