Bill to take part in CBeebies's Ecobabies
11/06/2008 00:00 GMT

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From the Coventry Telegraph's website (at
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2008/06/cbeebies-goes-green-with-ecoba.html):


CBeebies Goes Green With Ecobabies

By Marion McMullen on Jun 9, 08 07:38 AM in Telly gossip

A YEAR-LONG green initiative called EcoBeebies will launch on the CBeebies channel on Friday.

EcoBeebies will introduce three to six-year-olds and their families to a range of environmental, conservation and wildlife related issues, with contributions from familiar faces including Springwatch presenter and conservationist Bill Oddie.

The launch day will be marked with a one-off special show called Easy Peasy EcoBeebies, followed a week later by a weekly nature programme called The Green Balloon Club, which will be broadcast every Friday afternoon for a year.

In addition, children can access EcoBeebies via an initiative called the Green Stars Club on the CBeebies website, enabling children to learn more about conservation and their environment with parents and carers online.

Michael Carrington, Controller, CBeebies said: "We want to encourage children to explore, conserve and appreciate the outdoors and nature with their parents, teachers and grandparents. Given the success of our junior versions of shows like Springwatch, we hope that EcoBeebies will inspire young children to get outside, be active and engage with conservation."

Children and carers can log on to bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ecobeebies to learn about regeneration through the Green Stars Club, an online club where children will be encouraged to do their bit for the environment.

Each week on the show, a password will be given which enables children to enter the Green Balloon Club website. Children will be able to earn stars by completing tasks like growing their own food in a window box or garden, helping with recycling or spotting animals and birds.