🌿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.
We commemorate World Bee Day by recognising the functions of bees in food systems, community livelihoods and a balance in biodiversity. And in line with this year's theme, Bee Engaged, we highlight some practical actions for bees and pollinators, and things you can do to ensure their conservation, in Africa and the world over!
This blog is part of a series, led by the Youth4Nature USA Team, to celebrate World Bee Day (May 20, 2020).
On World Bee Day 2020, we are highlighting this colorful arthropod because they are not just an abstract factor of our environment - they are right in your communities. Whether we are talking about wild bees or hived bees, we can each play a specific role to support and invite more pollinator activity.
This blog is part of a series, led by the Youth4Nature USA Team, to celebrate World Bee Day (May 20, 2020).
What would a world without bees look like?
Initially, we might think that a world without bees might mean a world without honey, which is devastating in and of itself. Then, we might consider that a world without bees may also mean a world without wildflowers, since almost every flowering plant requires pollination.
What we may not fully appreciate is the potential economic and cultural impact of losing bees.
This blog is part of a series, led by the Youth4Nature USA Team, to celebrate World Bee Day (May 20, 2020).
Today, as you may know, is Bee Day. As a person who lives in the northeast United States, I’ve recently been witness to the amazing work people around here are doing on protecting and restoring pollinator habitats. Many of these projects involve or are led by youth and can be adapted or replicated in your own community, so I’ll give a few examples.
