This powerful session shares grassroots stories from Brazil’s Cerrado, highlighting the deep connection between water, biodiversity and community-led restoration. Through lived experiences, speakers demonstrate how seed collection, ecosystem recovery and traditional knowledge are sustaining livelihoods while protecting vital water sources, showing how restoring nature also restores culture, livelihoods and hope for future generations.

Listen to youth restoration leaders as they work alongside local communities to regenerate ecosystems, conserve biodiversity and build climate resilience through community-led restoration.