¶ Earth Tribe Award
¶ 🔍 Overview
The Earth Tribe Award lets you tackle environmental challenges while earning a globally recognised badge. Choose your mission, lead a project, and become a planet champion!
📌 Who is it for? Explorer and Network Scouts (between 13.5 and 25) (younger sections can do this badge, but the requirements are different)
📌 What’s it about? Environmental conservation, sustainability, and community action.
📌 Why do it? Earn recognition for leading eco-projects, build leadership skills, and join a global movement of young environmentalists.
¶ ☑️ Requirements
Complete one of the following pathways:
- Identify the need
Explore what nature is and how our values and actions are impacting biodiversity and nature. Consider what needs to happen to help biodiversity and nature to recover and regenerate.
- Plan action
Decide how you will take action to support nature and what you want to change. Decide on the steps you will take to create this change.
- Take action
Using some of the suggested activities (or your own ideas identified through plan action) go out and take action to protect nature. Ensure you are engaging with your local community as part of your action.
- Learn and make more change
Discuss what you have learned, how you have helped to protect nature and increase biodiversity or spread awareness of this issue and reflect on how young people feel about climate empathy. What could you do with Scouts across the world to create more of the change you set out to achieve?
- Tell the world
Share your story of change with people in your local community and beyond with this activity. Explain why this is an important issue and what you did.
- Identify the need
Explore how we use energy, the different sources and the impacts of energy use on people and nature. This could be at a local, national or international scale.
- Plan action
Decide how you will take action to use less energy and find ways to use more renewable, low impact and ethical energy. Decide on the steps you will take to create this change.
- Take action
Using some of the suggested activities (or your own ideas identified through plan action) go out and take action. Ensure you are engaging with your local community as part of your action.
- Learn and make more change
Discuss what you have learned, how you have helped to reduce your energy consumption or spread awareness of this issue. What could you do with Scouts across the world to create more of the change you set out to achieve?
- Tell the world
Share your change wider with people in your local community and beyond with this activity. Explain why this is an important issue and what you did.
- Identify the need
Understand your local and the global issues and challenges around waste (including plastic) and how our behaviours impact on other people and nature.
- Plan action
Decide how you want to take action on one of the root causes of waste and what you want to change. Decide on the steps you will take to create this change.
- Take action
Using some of the suggested activities (or your own ideas identified through plan action), go out and take action on the causes of waste. Ensure you are engaging with your local community as part of your action.
- Learn and make more change
Discuss what you have learned (using our suggested review activity), how you have helped to reduce waste or spread awareness of this issue. What could you do with Scouts across the world to create more of the change you set out to achieve?
- Tell the world
Share your story of change with people in your local community and beyond with this suggested activity. Explain why this is an important issue and what you did.
¶ ⌚ Example Timeline
- 0-2 months: Identify need
- 3-5 months: Plan action
- 5-8 months: Take action
- 8-10 months: Learn more and make a change
- 10-11 months: Tell the world & complete Earth Tribe badge