英民間組織舉行活動鼓勵孩子們重回戶外
A campaign is being launched to encourage children to surrender 30 minutes of screen time a day to head for the great outdoors.
The newly formed Wild Network – a collaboration of nearly 400 organisations - is attempting to attract youngsters away from television and computer screen and into fields, woods and parks.
Organisers say it is the UK's biggest ever campaign to reconnect children with nature and outdoor play, and claim it could help improve fitness, mental alertness and general wellbeing.
A documentary film, Project Wild Thing, will herald the launch at more than 50 cinemas across the UK from Friday. It looks at the increasingly fragile link between children and nature.
Members of the network include the National Trust, RSPB, Play England and the NHS sustainable development unit.
Andy Simpson, chairman of the Wild Network, said: "The tragic truth is that kids have lost touch with nature and the outdoors in just one generation.
"Time spent outdoors is down, roaming ranges have fallen drastically, activity levels are declining and the ability to identify common species has been lost."
Suggestions of how to get more time in nature include collecting conkers, camping or snail racing, and observing autumn colour on trees.
From January, the network will aim to make suggestions to politicians on how government can do more to get children muddy and bright-eyed.
This is not the first time the message of less screen, more play has been brought up. Children in the 1980s were entreated to do the same by the BBC TV series Why Don't You, which somewhat confusingly called on its viewers to "switch off your TV set, and go do something less boring instead".英國正在發起一個活動，鼓勵孩子們每天用半個小時的上網時間去參加戶外活動。
新成立的野外網絡——有近400個組織合作——正試圖讓青少年遠離電視、電腦，吸引他們去田野、森林和公園玩耍。
組織者稱，這是英國有史以來最大的一次讓孩子們重新走進大自然和到戶外玩耍的活動，並聲稱這項活動有助於改善健康，使人精力充沛，增加幸福感。
紀錄片《大自然的投影》從10月25日開始在英國50多家電影院上映，爲此次活動拉開序幕。這部紀錄片反映了兒童與大自然之間越來越脆弱的聯繫。
活動成員包括國家信託、皇家鳥類保護協會、玩轉英格蘭和英國國家醫療服務系統可持續發展部。
野外網絡的主席安迪·辛普森說：“令人感覺不妙是，在這一代人中，孩子失去了與大自然和戶外接觸的機會。”
“孩子們的戶外活動時間減少，活動範圍急劇縮小，活動水平下降，識別常見生物的能力喪失。”
關於如何增加孩子們戶外活動時間的建議有收集板栗遊戲、露營或蝸牛賽跑和觀察秋色。
從一月份起，野生網絡將致力於向政治家們建議政府採取措施讓孩子們變得更加熱情活潑。
少看電視多玩耍，這一想法並不是首次提出。20世紀80年代，BBC電視連續劇“你爲什麼不”中就懇求孩子們少看電視多玩耍，讓人困惑的是BBC是電視臺，卻讓觀衆“關掉電視，去做一些比看電視更有趣的事”。
