I love the positive tone of the Nature Diary every week in the Gazette. It’s the first inside page I turn to. Always informative, insightful and uplifting.

Your various contributors do a great job of drawing our attention to the wildlife and nature of the South Hams, all drawing on their own ­expertise.

Maya Plass’s Nature Diary recently was particularly uplifting and encouraging, when she described how she took a group of 50 enthusiastic children from Aveton Gifford Primary School along the tidal road, explaining about the dangers of plastic, ­cotton buds, fishing net and shotgun cartridges to the marine environment.

Hopefully these children will develop habits into their adulthood that will mean they in turn will be teaching their own children that plastic products are unacceptable and pollute the planet with disastrous ­consequences.

As Rebecca Hosking, director of the environmental film Message in the Waves, said: ‘With plastic there is no ‘away’.’ A message for us all, young and old.

Helen Petit

Ebrington Street

Kingsbridge