09/10/2025
14:00 - 14:45
IUCN Youth Pavilion
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Youth are working intergenerationally, using culture as a powerful vehicle for systemic change, reconnecting nature, art, and the web of life, decolonizing conservation, and rooting these practices in community projects worldwide. Join us to envision conservation grounded in justice, kinship, and care.
Session Description
How can conservation truly transform if it doesn’t also shift culture, politics, and worldviews? This session highlights the work of the Nature–Culture Fellowship (NCF), where young people across the world are working intergenerationally to reimagine conservation from the ground up.Fellows will share stories of how they are using culture as a vehicle for systemic change—reconnecting with nature and art to facilitate new stories, reconnecting with ourselves in the web of life, and healing relationships with the more-than-human world. They are decolonizing conservation and rooting these practices in community projects worldwide, showing what transformation looks like in diverse contexts.
Their experiences reveal how grief, gratitude, and intergenerational solidarity can sustain long-term change. The event will combine youth testimonies, mentor reflections, and an interactive segment inviting participants into collective visioning.
Join us to witness bottom-up transformation and imagine how justice, kinship, and care for all beings can reshape conservation.
Organised by
South America Region
Partners
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
Synchronicity Earth ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
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