Pushing Boundaries Challenge: How are you protecting the planet?

Are you under the age of 35 and actively working to protect the environment?

The Pushing Boundaries Challenge wants to know how you are protecting parks, people and the planet. Share your inspiring story for a chance to be featured at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia.

pushing boundariesThe Challenge is accepting  submissions in the form of documents, videos, arts, stories, songs…anything that inspires creativity and successfully represents the participant’s project.

Two (2) winners will be chosen to receive:

1. Mentorship, support, and direction to create a 2-3 minute professional video highlighting their work to be shown at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia in November 2014,
2. A featured profile on the CoalitionWILD website and Challenge website
3. A feature in the CoalitionWILD newsletter and WCPA newsletter
4. Become a CoalitionWILD Ambassador

Top 10 winners will receive international exposure via the CoalitionWILD, IUCN, WCPA and World Parks Congress websites and on site at the World Parks Congress via posters and/or multimedia display, including in a dedicated session under Stream 8 – Inspiring a New Generation.

Two “People’s Choice” winners will also be chosen via a public voting process, and will receive a prize of either a one year subscription to Vimeo Plus, or a one year Dropbox Premium account.

Thanks to generous support from the IUCN WCPA, Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UNDP, two (2) Challenge participants from GEF eligible countries (Kenya is among these) with projects selected by the International Judging Panel will receive sponsorship to attend the World Parks Congress.

The competition is open until September 21, 2014. For more information, visit http://pushingboundaries.coalitionwild.org

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