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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Youth Guide To Biodiversity - Dedicated To All The Youths Worldwide

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition, Youth and United Nations Global Alliance. Reproduced with permission.

Last pages...Verbatim.

Glossary

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition (Glossary) Youth and United Nations Global Alliance. Reproduced with permission. Verbatim.

List of Species

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition (Annex B) Youth and United Nations Global Alliance. Reproduced with permission. Verbatim.

mosquito on red petal.

© iStock

In addition to one or more common names, every internationally recognised species has a unique scientific name. It consists of two names, usually Latin or Greek words, that are always italicised (or underlined if the name is written by hand). The first name is the genus (generic name), and begins with a capital letter; the second is the species (specific name), and is written in lower-case.

Contributors And Organisations - Annex A

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition (Annex A) Youth and United Nations Global Alliance. Reproduced with permission. Verbatim.

A rooster in a market near Totonicapan, Guatemala.
© Lénaïg Allain-Le Drogo (age 14)

Conclusion - Chapter 13

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, Jennifer Corriero and Ping Ya-Lee, TakingITGlobal, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition (Chapter 13) Youth and United Nations global Alliance. Reproduced with permission.

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

Now that you have read through the Six Simple Steps Towards Change, you are ready to lead your own biodiversity action project to success. Remember that these steps are only guidelines and you may want to set your own path. There is no perfect system or path to success because each situation is unique.

6. Have A Lasting Impact

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

Monitoring your project throughout each stage will help you to best respond to changes that occur along the way and have a lasting impact. It is helpful to set out indicators or measures of success to make sure you stay on track. The more specific your indicator, the easier it will be to achieve your achievements.

5.Plan And Get Moving - Develop An Action Plan

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

© FAO /Riccardo Gangale

By now you have identified biodiversity issues of concern, you’ve learned more about the issues, and have recognised your skills and those of your team. You have also learned about the importance of networking and connecting with people who can help you to achieve your goals. You are ready to develop and implement an action PLAN.

Biodiversity Matters International Youth Symposium For Biodiversity

Chapter 13. Michael Leveille and Daniel Bisaccio. Verbatim.

“The sharing of information and collaboration with students from other nations bring us closer together and help us all to realise that we do indeed live in a global village.”

Clint Monaghan, delegate director Second International Youth Symposium for Diversity

Community Action To Improve The Environment

Chapter 13. Kate Buchanan, WAGGGS. Verbatim.

Member Organisations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) carry out many projects around the world.

Here are two examples of projects tackling environmental issues.

Both projects won an Olave Award for outstanding community service work at the WAGGGS World Conference in 2008.

Girl Guides of Malaysia: “Recycling for Unity” project

3. Lead And Get Others Involved - Lead Your Project To Success

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

Identifying your skills and characteristics will help you LEAD your project to success. Start by understanding your own strengths and needs, and then consider how creating a team could help you better achieve your goals. Helping your team members identify and leverage their own strengths and talents for the project is an important part of leadership. It is also important to ensure that all those involved are able to share in the vision of what you are trying to achieve.

The United Nations Decade On Biodiversity

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013, Jennifer Corriero and Ping Ya-Lee, TakingITGlobal, "The Youth Guide to Biodiversity" 1st Edition (Chapter 13) Youth and United Nations Global Alliance. Reproduced with permission.

Chapter 13. David Ainsworth, CBD. Verbatim.

You are part of nature’s rich diversity and have the power to protect or destroy it.

Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, supports the living systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on. We know that our actions are causing biodiversity to be lost at a greatly accelerated rate. These losses are irreversible, make our lives poorer and damage the life support systems we rely on every day. But we can prevent them.

Identify And Get Informed - Identify The Issues

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

Refer Back to your reflections on the biological resources that you would like to conserve, protect or restore. Now you can IDENTIFY and narrow down the biodiversity issues that are more important to you.

Case Study: Elluminate Fire And Ice Organic Garden Project

Chapter 13. Annika Su, Taiwan. Verbatim.

Annika Su (left) and her classmates, Ruo-chi Kong, Huei-chu Wu and Yu-yin Tsai, at Fongsi Junior High School, Taiwan, accept a 2009 Global Junior Challenge

award on behalf of the Elluminate Fire & Ice Organic Garden Project.

© Cindea Hung

In 2006, Abel Machado School in the tiny community of Massambará, Vassouras, Brazil, participated in an online event that challenged schools to implement one activity to combat climate change in their local area. The event was organised by the non‑profit global collaboration initiative, Fire & Ice, started by Elluminate, an e-learning and virtual conferencing technology provider based in Canada.

Case Study: Mt. Kenya Youth Initiative For Ecosystem Restoration

Chapter 13. Sylvia Wambui Wachira, Kenya. Verbatim.

Sylvia Wambui Wachira (left) plants a tree

seedling with a student at Kabiru-ini secondary

school, Karatina, Kenya.

The Mt. Kenya Youth Initiative for Ecosystem Restoration (MKYIER) is a volunteer-run community organisation, founded by urban and rural youth, to address deforestation in the Nyeri North district of Kenya.

Sylvia Wambui Wachira, MKYIER co-founder and programme manager, describes how she and her friends started the organisation and how they empowered a new generation of forest stewards, one school at a time:

Ask Yourself

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

1. Reflect And Get InspiredReflect On Your Passions

Take a moment to REFLECT on the biodiversity issues that matter most to you. Imagine a world of unlimited natural beauty and diversity, where humans live in harmony with the Earth's biological and natural systems. What would that world look like?

Six Simple Steps Towards Change

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

These Six Simple Steps Towards Change have been adapted from the Guide to Action, created by TakingITGlobal, in consultation with young global leaders from around the world.

You can use these steps to help you to plan and execute your own biodiversity project:

1. Reflect and Get Inspired

2. Identify and Get Informed

3. Lead and Get Others Involved

4. Get Connected

5. Plan and Get Moving

6. Have a Lasting Impact

Biodiversity and You - Chapter 13

Chapter 13. Verbatim.

Translucent butterfly in France.

After reading this guide and learning about the importance of biodiversity and the threats to biodiversity, get ready to take action on the issues that matter most to you. Young people around the world are leading successful projects to protect and restore the biosphere. Now it’s your turn to take action: learn the six simple steps that you can take to start an action project that will help to ensure that the world’s biological resources are protected for future generations.

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