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Young people thrive in nature. Nature is a setting for fun and adventure, promotes health and wellbeing, develop love for nature, and acts as a laboratory for endless scientific exploration and creativity. When young people forge personal connections to nature, the benefits to individual and societal health are lasting and they lay a foundation for lifelong support of nature conservation. Numerous studies have shown that increased participation in nature-based environmental education is related to greater ecological behavior, mediated by increases in environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature. Through spending time in nature, children quickly develop love for nature, empathy for creatures, sense of oneness, curiosity for their natural surroundings, and sense of responsibility.
Through spending time in nature, children quickly develop love for nature, empathy for creatures, sense of oneness, curiosity for their natural surroundings, and sense of responsibility.
Endangered Species International (ESI) has been involving local children in all conservation activities including rainforest conservation, coral reef protection, ocean cleanup and conservation, endangered species protection and research, and native tree planting and monitoring.
By including children in our field activities, we:
Promote connectedness to nature; Bring children into Nature at an early age. Strengthening connectedness to nature is more sustainable before the age of 11; Share cultural roots and ancestry in nature; Seek out diverse partnerships and collaborations; Provide children and youth with tools they need to heal Nature.
Photos: ESI field activities that promote children deep connection to nature at an early age. © Endangered Species International
Up to a million species are facing extinction - some within the next decade - unless we take immediate action to save them. You can be a part of the solution for endangered species and wild habitats: support on the ground efforts to protect the wild right now.
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