YRE and #GenerationRestoration Schools in Action: Mexico

Students from the Comunidad Educativa Nuestra Tierra, Green Oaks School, in Veracruz, Mexico, are using environmental reporting and communication to support local mangrove restoration in their region through the Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) programme and #Generation Restoration Schools movement.  

The school’s journey began by watching a RESTORE documentary focused on the Central American Dry Corridor, a region highly vulnerable to extreme weather and other impacts of climate change. The film explores how communities are restoring degraded landscapes and strengthening their resilience through approaches that work with nature, including agroforestry and more sustainable land management.  

Inspired by the documentary, the Young Reporters connect its global restoration story to local environmental challenges, in their case the degradation of mangroves.   

The Young Reporters are investigating and reporting on local mangrove restoration by: interviewing local conservation organisations, raising awareness of mangrove pollution through river clean-up days, and encouraging wider community participation in local restoration efforts.  

Young Reporters can play an important role in telling the story of ecosystem restoration. By investigating, bringing together different perspectives, and communicating what they discover, the Young Reporters are helping more people understand the challenges facing their local ecosystems and giving visibility to the people, solutions, and opportunities for action already present in their community. 

Join FEE and UNEP’s #GenerationRestoration Schools and become a part of a movement of schools that are working towards ecological restoration in their local environments.