THANK YOU for your engagement! Here are our July updates - many exciting activities on the horizon!
June 2021 Newsletter
National Indigenous History Month & Canada’s Indian Residential School Systems
In Canada during the month of June, not only do we celebrate pride month, but we also celebrate National Indigenous History Month. Celebrating June in this way began in 2009, after a unanimous motion passed by the House of Commons. Normally it is a time to celebrate the “history, heritage and diversity” of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples in Canada. However, this year's celebration has been stained with sadness for Indigenous People across Canada after the news released Thursday, May 27th of 215 children’s bodies found beneath the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
May 2021 Newsletter
Colombia protests for democracy: understanding its connection with nature & how to support
The anti-government protests in Colombia started on April 28th and are now entering their 3rd week. It all started with the announcement of an unpopular tax reform by President Ivan Duque. The law would drastically affect the working class, expanding taxes to citizens, business owners, food and sales. After an incredibly challenging year for many due to COVID-19, the demonstrations were huge. On May 2nd, after 5 days of violence in the streets across the country…
Join Sarah at the 2021 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)!
Being labelled as an educational forum for YDC, I knew incorporating Youth4Nature would be instrumental in my own participation. As an Indigenous youth, education is a two way exchange where both myself and the organizations I work with must benefit. My work at Youth4Nature has been focused on Indigenous engagement to both honour my roots, but also to help create better spaces for Indigenous youth to share how important nature and climate are to us as Indigenous Peoples. Being young…
April 2021 Newsletter
See you at the IUCN Global Youth Summit!
We're looking for a Media Director to join our team!
We’re looking for a part-time Media Director to join our team! The Media Director will work collaboratively with the Communications Director to support the media-production related needs of the full Y4N team. They will work directly with project leads and teams to ideate, create, manage and deliver audio and video assets that reflect our organisational values, are engaging and relevant to our audiences, and realistic within our organisational capacities.
Youth4Nature joins Youth In Landscapes Initiative
Youth-led international environmental organization Youth4Nature (Y4N) has just become the latest member of the Youth In Landscapes Initiative (YIL) steering committee, thus expanding both organizations’ networks while offering valuable opportunities for collaboration, mutual learning and growth.
Y4N 2019-2020 Impact Report
We wanted to make sure that our talk of impact wasn't just that - talk. The results of our Impact Report showed us that our Y4N work is making meaningful and authentic impact on the ground and at the global level. We're talking everything from almost 20 webinars and a storytelling exhibit with 1000 visitors up to dialogues with government officials from over 9 countries and 1 million (!) people reached on social media. Read our full 2019-2020 Impact Report here.
How much nature can address climate change depends on us
“Planting new trees is undoubtably an important piece of the climate puzzle, but it’s not a silver bullet, nor should it be the first nature-based climate solution we turn to” - Canada released their renewed Climate Plan in December, and it includes an entire section about nature. Here’s why it misses the mark.
Venezuela: Mining impacts on Indigenous Communities
Increasingly, the traditional territories of Indigenous communities in Venezuela have become areas where Colombian Guerrillas, illegal miners and Venezuelan military forces openly cooperate to mine, coercing them to destroy their own ancestral lands, resulting in a large migration to neighboring countries, most notably Brazil. And yes, you read it right. The crises that Venezuelan Indigenous communities are facing are so devastating that they have no option but to go to the very same country that is all over main stream media because of the environmental crisis.
Venezuela: environmental and human injustices – Arco Minero ecocide
“Despite these humanitarian and environmental atrocities, very few global organizations or activists have mobilized or campaigned to make these issues known within their circles. In the meantime, this huge area is being mined, and the great biodiversity and the indigenous people in this area are being impacted and the damage will be irreversible.”
The US Presidential Election & Global Climate Policy
Former Vice President Joe Biden was recently projected to be the next President of the United States.
These results have the power to impact not only US policy and culture, but also international policy and global climate change mitigation.
President Donald Trump favors subsidies for fossil fuel giants in coal and gas, while time is running out in the race to lessen the worst effects of climate change. He creates a culture of climate denialism within the US and encourages destructive policies abroad.
Shark-based COVID-19 vaccines may affect function of aquatic ecosystems
COVID-19 has impacted millions of people worldwide. As the world enters a second wave of this pandemic, the race to develop a safe vaccine is at the forefront of political and public discourse and now includes the seemingly unrelated realm of conservation. Human health is of top priority around the world, but what about the health of marine life?
Arab Environment Day
We've got news ... We're growing!
We are humbled and thrilled to announce that Youth4Nature is hiring! We are looking for seven young individuals to join our team and help us grow: one full-time Communications Director, and six part-time Regional Directors.
Thank you to our funders, ClimateWorks Foundation, for making this possible.
On Racism in the Environmental Movement
As a global, youth-led organisation working in the climate and environmental space, we hold ourselves accountable to the demands for racial justice in light of the recent events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the consequent outburst of solidarity across the world against institutionalized racism, within the justice system and beyond.
Youth4Nature stands in solidarity with Black communities and the Black Lives Matter movement.
#BlackLivesMatter
