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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 NOVEMBER 2022 7 ALMANAC Nature Notebook 842. Foresta 2000 IN the run-up to the new millennium BirdLife proposed to grow a new forest. Restoring habitat was something BirdLife was getting good at, so restoring some woodland – a habitat we'd virtually lost – sounded like a good idea. Studies were made, experts consulted and plans drawn up. We had no idea what it would cost but went for it anyway. With Din l-Art Ħelwa and PARK as project partners, and thousands of kids growing young trees at school, Foresta 2000 was a hit. Despite regular vandal attacks who over the years burned and chopped down thousands of saplings, we planted 20,000+ trees and shrubs, which are now maturing and providing birds, reptiles and insects with food and shelter. Once a degraded place overrun by squatters, hunters and illegal offroaders, the site now smells of pine needles and new soil. Go, it's free and open 24/7. Designing an urban garden for climate resilience Our second hands-on Community Garden will be held on the 4th of De- cember! We look forward to welcoming you to our Friends of the Earth Malta office in Floriana. A community garden gives citizens the opportunity to actively partici- pate in the food production process. The gardeners themselves decide what to grow in the garden and the vegetables that are harvested do not come with a price tag. In this way, people can adapt to climate change by reducing their vulnerability to its impacts and increasing their resil- ience to it. Urban gardening is one way to increase resilience to climate change, as it improves the capacity of social ecosystems to cope with the consequences of, for example, yield losses due to extreme weather conditions. So come and join us and gain hands-on experience growing plants, preparing the soil, pruning and learn more about the world of garden- ing. Since this is also a social event, it's also a great opportunity to get connected with others. There will be water, tea and coffee for everyone. You're encouraged to bring along some food to share after the session. Join us today from 2pm till 6pm! Victor Falzon www.birdlifemalta.org Green idea of the week 730: Visit our website and register for the session on the 4th of December https://foemalta.org/events/ Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation – www.foemalta.org/donate Don't miss this Month Of European Film 17 November 2022 - 10 December Place: Eden Cinemas For four weeks watch 6 Award- Winning European movies at the Eden Cinemas! Movies you can look forward to include: • Official Competition - Spain, • Everything Went Fine - France, • War Sailor - Norway, • I'm Your Man - Germany, • The Whistlers - Romania, • The Only Way Out - Serbia Give nature a voice. Become a BirdLife member Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition 29 November Place: Malta Society of Arts Francis Camilleri will be performing a piano recital at the Malta Society of Arts on 29 November at 7pm. The programme includes two canonical works from the piano literature: Debussy Preludes (Book 1) and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Both the performer and the audience are taken through a myriad of colours and emotions, as both works unfold as paintings in sound. A GOOD WEEK Good Week/Bad Week A BAD WEEK The world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which marks its 70th anniversary on Friday, is to open on Broadway for the first time next year. Agatha Christie's whodunit premiered in London's West End on 25 November 1952, and the writer initially thought it might run for only eight months. Adidas has launched an investigation into reports that rapper Kanye West created a "toxic environment" when he was working with the brand. Rolling Stone reported claims from some workers on the Yeezy collaboration, saying he showed them explicit pictures and videos as part of bullying tactics. The show has been staged in the US before, but never in New York. In a letter, they said bosses were aware of West's "problematic behaviour" but "turned their moral compass off".