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Youth and locally led initiatives operating in areas identified as significant by their local communities. We will consider any project for the Iris Prize which supports our core principles: championing the protection and restoration of nature and the rights of those working to defend it. We recognise that nature restoration takes various forms – from traditional land stewardship to innovative technological solutions. The Prize will look to reward new ideas and established projects, hoping to overcome the circumstantial barriers that too often prevent young people from being able to advocate for nature-related change.
We prioritise initiatives in the Global South [sic], where our support can have a more significant impact. But we also consider exceptional projects from the Global North.
N.B. The Global South/Global North terms are inaccurate and misleading. First, they are descriptively inaccurate, even when they refer to general notions such as (economic) development. Second, they are homogenizing, obscuring important differences between countries supposedly part of the Global South and North groups. In this respect, these terms are no better than alternatives that they are trying to replace, such as ‘the West‘ or the ‘Third World‘. Third, the Global South/Global North terms imply a geographic determinism that is wrong and demotivational. Poor countries are not doomed to be poor, because they happen to be in the South, and their geographic position is not a verdict on their developmental prospects. The correct terms are low or medium-income countries.
