Luca Berardi
Luca Berardi
About me
– Founder of Young Animal Rescue Heroes (Y.A.R.H.) that creates awareness for endangered wildlife and environmental conservation
– Awards: 2018 Environmental Award of Lund Municipality (Sweden)
– WWF Sweden’s Environmental Hero (Youth) 2018
– Author -The Breakout : The adventures of two brothers on their quest to saving endangered species and combating poaching” published on Amazon)
– Jury Member – Children’s Climate Prize – Sweden (2018/2019)
Engagements
– Organised the WWF Earth Hour events in Lund (Sweden) in 2018 and 2019
– Miljotinget (environmental parliament) in Falun, Sweden (November 2018)
– Speaker at the Open Innovation Days Event at the University of Padua, Italy (October 2018)
– Speaker at the Helena Institute of Nature (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, February 2017): a conversation with school children on the importance of connecting with nature
– Youth representative (panellist) at the global conversation on the commitment to save the world’s elephants and rhinos “Prelude to the biggest ivory burn†(April 2016), organised by the American Embassy and conservation community in Kenya
– Youngest Kenya TEDx Youth Talk Speaker (Brookhouse School, Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2015)
– Youngest Speaker at the Global March for Wildlife in Nairobi (Kenya) on 3rd October 2015
– Speaker at the international conference on Capacity-Building for Conservation, attended by 170 people from 90 organisations and 35 countries (July 2015)
Media & citations
Book Citations
– Magnificent Kids, by Kerryn Vaughan (Australia)
– Book of African Records (Zimbabwe)
– You Effect: The power of Youth, by Kelly Lovell (Canada)
Our Present Planet
