A young girl is on a mission to help save the planet after being inspired to take action to protect the environment by a television programme.

Little Isla Wood, who is in Year 1 at Mary Towerton School in Studley Green, has taken it upon herself to try and rid the area of as much litter as possible after she was inspired partly by watching BBC documentary Blue Planet II.

She was also encouraged to start litter picking after learning about different ways to be eco-friendly in her lessons at school.

The youngster started out by collecting litter to and from school and for a few terms, she collected and recycled what she could when she arrived for a day of lessons.

She decided to keep all the rubbish she collected from just one term alone to show just how much litter is dropped in the area - and has inspired her friends to get involved.

In the collected rubbish was 77 tin cans, 60 plastic bottles and 28 cigarette packets.

Isla was also the youngest volunteer at a Stokenchurch Parish Council litter pick and was “saddened” by how much litter she found in the village - including more than 40 plastic gloves from a petrol station, bottles, cans and sweet wrappers.

She also got her family involved in a litter pick between Studley Green and Piddington after being upset by the state of the pathways.

And her enthusiasm for being more eco-friendly has inspired her family to make changes at home - including stopping the use of plastic milk bottles, saying no to plastic straws and wet wipes, reusing plastic tubs from packaged food and choosing fruit and vegetables not wrapped in plastic in the shops.

Isla said: “I feel really angry about litter because it’s not nice for the environment and it doesn’t rot for a long time.

“Plastic is dangerous to animals too, it can get stuck in animals’ throats, they might eat it and they could stop breathing.”