The National Park Foundation has announced great news:

The National Park Foundation (NPF) today announced a historic $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. This transformative grant — the largest ever received by NPF and the largest grant benefitting national parks — celebrates a pivotal moment in safeguarding the future of America’s treasured national parks.

The Lilly Endowment’s gift is great. 

But on the day this was announced children were entering the world under a standard that undid much of the chance to safeguard the future of America’s treasured national parks. That standard ensures no minimum threshold for their birth, development, and emancipation, or any threshold to limit growth that would be consistent with protecting parks, ensuring the equity for all to access parks, or the chance for kids to one day protect parks for those even further in the future by being assured an effective role in their democracies.

Read more here  from Yale University about kids, climate, and nature. 

There is a move underway to fix this, one that urges the United Nations to change the standard, and make it the first and overriding human right.

Take Action: Respectfully urge the Lilly Endowment and the National Park Foundation to consider backing the action at the UN here.