A campaigning project to rescue and revive an endangered and environmentally-sensitive urban park in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has won the 2008 Volvo Adventure and the US$10,000 first prize. The five students of the 'Green Sail' team, beat off stiff competition at the World Final in Gothenburg, Sweden, earlier this week.

The finalists, aged 13 - 17 from 15 countries, had all presented outstanding projects tackling a wide range of environmental challenges facing their community, with flow on benefits to the worldwide environment.

Conjointement avec les services forestiers, les Scouts Musulmans Algériens du département de Tlemcen ont effectué une série d'activités environnementales en mars 2008. Plus de 300 scouts de différents groupes scouts ont planté des arbres, ont nettoyé leur environnement local et ont participé aux activités d'éducation à l'environnement.

Depuis le début de la campagne "Nettoyons la Terre" il y a 15 ans, les Scouts vont dans leurs communautés locales et nettoient leur environnement activement. Ils ont ramassé et rassemblé de nombreux sacs d'ordures, dirigé des campagnes éducatives, planté des arbres et se sont impliqués dans bien d'autres projets environnementaux. Le 3e weekend de septembre est le weekend dédié à la campagne "Nettoyons la Terre", où un bon nombre d'activités environnementales sont entreprises par des millions de bénévoles dans le monde entier, même si certaines activités se déroulent toute l'année, selon les besoins locaux.

Arranged in collaboration with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) the Volvo Adventure Award rewards active young people who create their own environmental projects. We are now searching for the 2008 winners – could it be you? All you have to do is register and enter your project by visiting www.volvoadventure.org.

UNEP has launched the 17th International children's painting competition. The Competition is organized annually by the UNEP and the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation. It has been held since 1991 and has received over 190,000 entries from children in over 100 countries.
This year’s Competition will focus on Climate Change: Actions we can take now.

Scouts from many countries joined other young environmental leaders of the world at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Youth Conference in Leverkusen, Germany from the 27th to 30th August. The participants had the opportunity to share their projects with 150 young people aged between 15 - 24 from 100 countries, showcasing a great variety of projects being lead by young people to tackle the world's environmental challenges.

Scouts' tree planting efforts and commitment to caring for the environment has featured in the latest edition of the United Nations Environment Programme's Tunza Magazine for children and youth. The theme for this edition is 'Connecting with Nature' and the Scout article focuses on the millions of trees planted by Scouts in projects around the world.