🌿The Iris Prize 2025 calls all youth-led projects working to protect and restore nature and the rights of those working to defend it 🌍 Do you have an idea or an established project? Are you aged 14-24? 🚀 Accepting applications until April 15th 2025 at 23:59 CET 🗓️
Youth4Nature is excited to share that we are members of the Steering Committee for the 9th American Forest Congress, coming up on July 15-18, 2025, in Washington, DC, USA. Learn more about our role and how to get involved.
At UNCBD COP16 in Colombia, we collaborated with Kenya Youth Biodiversity Network to bring together youth from around the world to explore the opportunities and concerns of integrating nature-based solutions into updated NBSAPs. Read on to find a summary of these youth perspectives!
This blog post provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on youth in agribusiness in Zimbabwe. It highlights key findings and offers insights from 5 government-led relief initiatives, and suggests potential solutions to not only rebuild youth leadership in agribusiness in the country, but to support sustainable practices for climate and biodiversity as well.
In observance of the twin Diversity Days 2021 (World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, 21st of May; International Day for Biological Diversity, 22nd of May), our #YourStoryOurFuture Storytelling Campaign is running a month-long special call-out for compelling and strong stories from youth that bridge society, culture and nature.
In honour of International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021, we are happy to announce that Youth4Nature's #YourStoryOurFuture Storytelling Campaign is hosting a special call-out for personal, local stories from girls and young women, as well as intergenerational women-led or gender-focused groups. Read more about what we’re looking for, eligibility criteria, and how to submit your story!
In the month of February 2021, we embarked on our Y4N Spotlight Series. On this feature, we hosted Mr. Chile Kangwa, a youth leader from the southern African country of Zambia, to understand more about his story and his organisation, action for nature. Here is the conversation Chile had with our Regional Director for Africa, Kaluki.
Lydia Halidi des Comores Anjouan nous a rejoint pour en discutons sa travaille dans sa communauté pour en faire face à la crise climatique. Écoutez à l’entrevue entière pour en savoir plus sur son projet, ses espoirs pour le futur, et la résilience dans sa communauté. La transcription est disponible en français ou en anglais.
As part of our new #YourStoryOurFuture campaign, we recently sat down to chat with 2019 #Y4N Storyteller, Iryna. Listen to this full length interview to hear more about her project, the benefits of sharing her story with the #Y4N community, and why she thinks it's important for other youth to get involved in climate action.
Last week we sat down to chat with 2019 Storyteller, Esmeralda, author of Un tout petit écosystème | A Tiny Ecosystem. Esmeralda shared that since she launched her urban composting project, three more projects have opened in other neighbourhoods across the municipality. Talk about the ripple effect!
Listen to our full interview with Esmeralda to learn more about her project, what has happened since the compost launched, and why it's important for youth to share their stories. Find the transcript here.
This is part of a short series for International Youth Day that is looking at how young people see, understand, and are acting for and with forests.
“We planted all this not for ourselves but for our neighbours. Each household now has at least 5 plants from us. I was able to teach children, youth and elders the role of trees and forests, any why forest conservation is crucial. When you plant even one tree, you have the power to influence so many people; indeed, you can influence life all over the world.”
This is part of a short series for International Youth Day that is looking at how young people see, understand, and are acting for and with forests.
“Since April 2019, the news has been dominated by a controversial decommissioning project for public utility, in particular regarding the exploitation of part (16 ha) of the classified forest of Kua for the construction of a hospital. This decision revolted us young climate activists and we started to protest.”
“In the end, thanks to the Immersion and my reflections on challenging experiences, I have come to the realisation that I can’t sustainably and joyfully work towards transformative and systemic change without undergoing some inner changes in my perspective and ways of functioning as part of the process. As mentioned, mobilising, campaigning and organising isn’t easy. And trying to do it without feeling comfortable in its innate intricacy, without love and positive energy is not possible in the long run. “
