MEET OUR YOUTH ACCORD ADMINISTRATOR

Kirsten Falkenburger is originally from Southern Ontario (CANADA) where she developed her love for the outdoors. She started working with a small environmental organization called Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources in 2008. She was one of the youth that organized a local biodiversity conference in Halton for 200 students. She then moved on to a committee to develop the International Youth Accord on Biodiversity, while still doing local work. She is dedicated to the cause and was chosen not only to be the Youth Accord Administrator, but to present the youth work at a large event called Green Week in Belgium held by the European Commission. She was also chosen by the Canadian Environmental Network to be the Canadian Youth Delegate for Biodiversity in 2010. She has spent her time promoting the Convention on Biological Diversity and ways for youth to get involved and protect our natural world. She now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia studying Natural Resource Management so that she can continue her work into the future.  She will be attending COP10 next month.