NATURE THROUGH HER EYES AWARDED DAUGHTERS FOR EARTH GRANT
Nature Through Her Eyes is honoured to announce its receipt of the Daughters for Earth Grant, a recognition of our programme’s commitment to advancing the role of women in environmental storytelling and promoting the representation of the natural world from diverse, underrepresented perspectives.
Daughters for Earth is a fund and movement dedicated to supporting and mobilizing women to protect and restore our planet. Their mission is grounded in the belief that women are essential to addressing climate challenges and that investing in women-led initiatives can drive transformative change in environmental preservation.
The Daughters for Earth Grant enables NTHE to continue its vital work of redefining how we see and understand our natural world—through the lens of women who are shaping the future of conservation through storytelling.
NATURE THROUGH HER EYES HONORED WITH PIONEER IN SDG STAKEHOLDERS AWARD BY THE JOURNALISTS AND WRITER’S ASSOCIATION
Nature Through Her Eyes has been recognized with the Journalist and Writer’s Association ‘Pioneer in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Stakeholders’ Award.
This prestigious award highlights NTHE’s commitment to SDG 13: Climate Action, SDG 14: Life Below Water and 15: Life on Land in using film and storytelling as a tool for advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through impact campaigns and education.
Receiving this award is a testament to the dedication of our team, mentors, participants and partners while recognising the vital role that the female gaze in nature storytelling plays for conservation.
As the programme continues to grow, we look forward to seeing the ripple effects of this initiative, from nurturing the next generation of women filmmakers to furthering global awareness of equity and conservation efforts. Congratulations to everyone involved in making this possible!
PAULA KAHUMBU RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE 25 MOST INFLUENCIAL WOMEN OF 2022 BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES!
Paula Kahumbu has been a voice for conservation for a long time and has done transformational work. Her “Hands Off Our Elephants” campaign drew attention to the threat of their extinction in Kenya and convinced people across a very broad spectrum, including at the highest political levels, to support conservation.
Her efforts, together with others’, have had a direct impact on the increase in the number of elephants in our country: the population has doubled since the late 1980s. Paula’s advocacy has created more awareness in the global community of the responsibility that we all have for the conservation of wildlife and particularly elephants. She believes they don’t belong to any individual country, but that we hold them in trust for humanity and for the future.
Paula has the ability to look at conservation issues as a whole, identify the priorities – where the dangers are real, where extinction is a real possibility – and address them. Many people are capable of doing the advocacy. She is unique in raising issues and providing possible solutions too. She’s a serious thinker and a pragmatic person. She is also a pioneer who chose a field that is not comfortable for many women. ‘I have a lot of respect and admiration for Paula’ says Amina Mohamed, a former Kenyan cabinet secretary and ambassador to the UN.
