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Online Sharing Session

Twenty seven students from across South Australia gathered online to celebrate their involvement in the 2021 Youth Environment Council (YEC).

Due to the pandemic, the planned face-to-face get together had to be cancelled but Zoom gave us the ability to come together virually to share and celebrate. While not the same as meeting in person, it was wonderful to hear what great projects everyone had worked on throughout the year. Parents and teachers also had the opportunity to login to see their students presentations.

We were delighted to have Green Adelaide Board Member Louka Parry welcome everyone to the forum and give an acknowledgement of country. Louka praised the YEC members for their dedication and creativity, and he was inspired to learn about the hard work that these amazing young South Australians had undertaken.

YEC members’ projects covered a diverse range of topics including researching how the Port Spencer deep port project proposal will affect Spencer Gulf; growing native plants for Trees for Life revegetation sites; food and biodiversity gardens, insect hotels and nest boxes; volunteering with fauna rescue, scientific research and environmental organisations; setting up online blogs; creating comics and stories about environmental issues; reducing waste in the school and community; starting environment groups at school; and much more.

As well as sharing their research and action projects, members had the opportunity to listen to and question guest speakers including a panel of past YEC members discussing their experiences since participating in YEC, and Vienna Tran from the Premier’s Climate Change Council.
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