Students in Nepal celebrate Pangolin Day
Nature Study and Conservation Centre helps students celebrate World Pangolin Day in Nepal .
Youth, Education & Nature
Join the conversation on the Children & Nature Network’s Trailhead, an online community of leaders, educators, parents, researchers, and changemakers. The Trailhead is your place to connect with peers, grow your network and learn, lead, and increase your impact in increasing equitable access to nature worldwide.
#NatureForAll invites you to take part in the Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning project.
There is growing momentum to transform school grounds into nature-filled spaces for learning and play, and as a way to enhance climate resilience and improve health and education outcomes – especially for children most impacted by systems of inequity and environmental injustice. The Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning project is engaging leaders and practitioners around the world to learn more about successful approaches and scalable strategies for greening school grounds.
This project is being led by the Children & Nature Network, in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar, the International School Grounds Alliance, the Commission on Education and Communication of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, #NatureForAll and the National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families.
Youth stories
South Africa’s Lapalala Wilderness School’s rhino initiative empowers the next generation of conservationists
Students from 55 schools across South Africa took part in the 11th annual Rhino Poster and Public Speaking competition hosted by Lapalala Wilderness School.
Prativa Kaspal: falling in love with pangolins
Prativa Kaspal shares how caring for her mother led her to working to save the pangolin.
Meet YAC member Sara Pineda
Meet Sara Pineda, a Mexican biologist and National Geographic Explorer dedicated to biodiversity conservation through community-based conservation.
Meet YAC member Michael Ruggeri
Meet Michael Ruggeri, a researcher at Oxford University with a background in environmental sciences, agriculture, and rural development.
Hanna Lester – My #LoveNature story
Hanna Lester works at the Pew Charitable Trusts, helping connect people with nature by enabling Indigenous peoples to protect their homelands.
Resources
Available in English and Portuguese
The updated guidance manual Benefits of Nature in the Development of Children and Adolescents, produced by Alana, IUCN CEC, #NatureForAll and the American Academy of Pediatrics, expands on material initially compiled in 2019 by Alana and the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics. The document includes three new topics: the benefits of nature for children with disabilities; the importance of nature in city planning; and climate change.
This Italian video-lesson, recorded in Castelporziano Presidential Nature Park in Italy, examines the relationship between nature and education. It was a contribution to the park’s ongoing programs on conservation and education as part of an “Open Workshop” hostedby the University of Tuscia/DIBAF.
The video is narrated by Maurilio Cipparone, member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication and the World Commission on Protected Areas as well as the scientific coordinator Department of Protected Areas, Community Science, NèB-Nature is Wellness, of the CURSA University Consortium.
An English transcript is available here.
Available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic
“A COP Fit For Children: How to support children’s participation” sets out how the organisers of COP and states involved in COP can make the climate summit inclusive for all children in the processes leading up to COP, COP itself, and in the follow-up process.
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