IUCN #NATURE FOR ALL

A global initiative to build support for nature conservation around the world.

The Institute is a partner of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s #NatureForAll movement, a global initiative to build support for nature conservation around the world by promoting nature-based learning and human connections with the natural world.

For more information on the #NatureForAll movement , please visit http://natureforall.global/australia

PUBLICATIONS

REPORT: NATURE CONNECTION ACTIVITIES IN AUSTRALIA

In support of the #NatureForAll campaign, the Institute engaged Claire Colahan, a Master of Environmental Management student at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, to undertake a research internship to gather information about nature connection efforts in Australia.

Claire conducted an online survey that was circulated widely across Australia through our networks, and it identified a total of 184 nature connection efforts being undertaken across Australia involving people of all ages and demographics across urban, rural and regional areas.

This survey remains open to allow further nature connection projects to continue to be recorded, so if you are involved in nature connection work, we would love to hear from you! The survey can be accessed here.

To read the findings of the report click here.
To see the full list of nature connection activities recorded to date in Australia click here.

REPORT: HOME TO US ALL

Dr Rosalie Chapple was a contributor to the report Home to Us All: How Connecting with Nature Helps Us Care for Ourselves and the Earth, in collaboration with other #NatureForAll partner representatives.

The report presents the growing body of evidence that people’s relationship with nature profoundly influences their behaviours toward the Earth as well as presenting the evidence for an urgently needed guide to action.

Excerpt from the Introduction:

#NatureForAll partners are showing how personal experiences and connections with nature provide powerful benefits for individual and societal health, well-being, and resilience, and are the foundation of a lifelong support for nature conservation. They are coming together as a coalition to share actions, collaborate, and amplify their collective reach to engage new audiences to connect with, and fall in love with, nature—and ignite action. As an important part of their work, they are accessing and generating knowledge about the value of experiences in nature and its links to positive attitudes and behaviours toward the Earth. This knowledge has a vital role to play in informing local, regional, and global policy and action on conservation and related issues.

The evidence supporting the link between human relationships with the rest of nature and actions that support positive conservation behaviour is rapidly growing. That knowledge base, with its specific focus on what leads to care for the Earth, is synthesized in this document. The health, education, economic, social and cultural benefits for humans through their connections with nature are increasingly understood. What is equally of interest are opportunities to foster connections with nature in ways that not only serve people, but, reciprocally and interactively, foster actions to care for the living systems and non-human inhabitants of our planet. Home to Us All: How Connecting with Nature Helps Us Care for Ourselves and the Earth provides the evidence for an urgently needed guide to action.

View or Download the report:
Home to Us All: How Connecting with Nature Helps Us Care for Ourselves and the Earth.