Europe & Central Asia

Narratives of Change: Saving Oaken Wood

Filmed in a day, this interview-style documentary was made to highlight and amplify local people on a mission to save a PAWS site called Oaken Woods. The woodland is privately owned and is currently being threatened by the expansion of the neighbouring Gallagher's Hermitage Quarry. "Friends of Oaken Wood" are campaigning to preserve and protect the woodlands for nature, for locals and to fight climate change.

Sheffield’s Cubs Ally With Worms to Solve Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change

Sheffield’s Cubs Ally With Worms to Solve Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change

Yazan, a Cubs leader in Sheffield, UK, organises a session about biodiversity loss and climate change. He brings a character named Bojo, who claims to have time-travelled from the future, to engage the cubs in creating a habitat for worms and bacteria. Through this fun activity, Yazan teaches the cubs about their responsibility to protect nature and act as role models in their communities.

Bird and Human Collaborations - Dreams of a Feasible Production System

Bird and Human Collaborations - Dreams of a Feasible Production System

In the middle of Europe, there is a small village where birds and farmers live peacefully side by side. Where sustainable and win-win farming has been proven to exist, and where humans and wildlife work together to heal ecosystem wounds.

Eco-Taxi

Eco-Taxi

For those who sort garbage: how Ecotaxi works in Cherkasy. In Cherkasy, to teach people to sort garbage, created a project "Ecotaxi", says the initiator Alyona Ostapenko. The waste that Cherkasy will hand over in this way will then be recycled. "Taxi" collects sorted plastic, paper, glass and metal. It works as follows: you call, negotiate, come to you and pick up sorted waste for free.

A Tale of Afrin

This is my narration of the chronicle of the region where I come from, the Afrin. Afrin was a peaceful city in northern Syria that turned from a sustainable city into a war zone. The olive tree was the centre of our livelihoods, our traditional Kurdish practices, and our ecosystems. Peace was kept until 2018 when Afrin was invaded. After the invasion, not only a deep humanitarian crisis arose but also an environmental one.

Medicine Meets Nature

Medicine Meets Nature

The discovery of traditional, natural remedies through my grandma’s stories. The heritage of traditional knowledge of medicines can help us recover from common flues and colds. Increase respect and knowledge of nature, biocultural diversity, and our bodies. Join me in discovering nature's mysteries.

Un Tout Petit Écosystème | A Tiny Ecosystem

Un Tout Petit Écosystème | A Tiny Ecosystem

In 2017, I moved to a flat with no possibility to sort my organic waste. I then decided to start a community compost in my neighbourhood. After a year and a half organising meetings with citizens, looking for funding, asking for legal authorisations, etc, we finally opened the compost. Just one week later, 120 people had signed up to have access to it!