Today, IUCN is launching with WWF and Nokia a global initiative towards young people called connect2earth.

► project presentation
► press release

www.connect2earth.org is a community website that will give young people a platform to share their ideas and concerns about environmental issues through their own videos, image or text. It is also a competition culminating in the presentation of the winner’s video, text or images to world leaders at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Barcelona this October.

connect2earth will allow us to reach new audiences, especially millions of young people from 13-35 years of age. It is a great platform to empower young people to be more environmentally aware and involved in what we do. 

We need your help to galvanize this movement and spread the word!

How to be involved

Pass the information to your networks that target young people – by e-mail, web forums or networks on FaceBook, MySpace etc. They can be IUCN networks, social networks, university networks, film school networks etc – anything that reaches out to young people.

If you are interested to find out more on how you can help, contact Gaëlle Cuillerot at gaelle.cuillerot@iucn.org or +41 22 999 0181.