We believe young people are the change-agents our planet needs to be a healthy and thriving home for all life.
Young people are more connected, more ambitious, and more impatient than ever before. Armed with a desire to not only want a better future for the planet, but to be a part of the effort it will take to create that future, youth are searching for opportunities to be actively engaged in designing the solutions they seek and using their voice. But taking that first step into leadership is difficult and often isolating and intimidating work. That is where we come in.
CoalitionWILD is building a powerful, globally connected community of emerging leaders to transform the planet through youth-driven solutions. We work to create lasting youth leadership for the planet through capacity building initiatives that produce youth-led action, benefitting both the environment and local communities.
Through working with youth on issues they are passionate about and providing the supportive space for taking risks and attempting new ideas, CoalitionWILD is ensuring that we are not just providing the tools needed to create action, but are imparting in these young leaders the belief that they know how to use those tools best.
OUR MISSION
CoalitionWILD connects and equips the world’s young change-makers to tackle our planet’s greatest conservation challenges.
OUR VISION
A world where younger generations are respected, valued, included, and supported to be active leaders and agents of change in creating a better future for the planet.
OUR MENTOR
CoalitionWILD is proud to be an official project of the WILD Foundation (WILD), a 501(c)3 organization that has worked internationally to connect and protect people, wildlife, and wild places for over 40 years. WILD’s mission is to protect and restore at least half of Earth’s wild nature to help create the best world possible. It does that by following an approach to conservation that counters the root causes harming nature, which include a lack of respect for Earth’s wildlife and wilderness, and lack of coordination for their protection.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE
Nature Needs Half is an international coalition of scientists, conservationists, non-profits, and public officials working to protect 50% of the planet by 2030. CoalitionWILD supports the Nature Needs Half vision as a member of the coalition and publicly declares its support for a respectful relationship with nature by building momentum for change. Why 50%? And when is it more effective and efficient to protect something: Before or after it has been destroyed?
CONTACT COALITIONWILD
Email
getinvolved@coalitionwild.org
Address
CoalitionWILD
c/o WILD Foundation
717 Poplar Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA
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