World Scout Environment Badge Requirements

Click here to download the full Australian Guidelines for all Sections (PDF, 283KB), which includes the five principles of the Award and the key expectations for each of the Sections. This information is progressively being added to the youth Section Record Books as they are reprinted. New activities and resources will be published at this website as they become available.

The WSEB can be completed by youth Members in all Sections, and is a progressive achievement badge that should challenge the thinking and skills of each individual youth member as he or she progresses through Scouting.

When completing the WSEB it is critical that the following guidelines are taken into consideration to ensure Scouts participate in:

1. Outdoor activities that are fun, allow unstructured exploration, encourage inquisitiveness and generate awareness.
2. Experience-based activities that promote environmental learning. These could be practical, physical or achievement-based activities.
3. Experience-based activities that encourage critical thinking about environmental issues and lead to shared awareness and deepened understanding of the individual’s responsibility for the environment.
4. Where possible activities should encourage thinking about how the five aims connect with each other.

The environment project aims to allow Scouts to:

1. Review learning experiences.
2. Identify local environment issues and understand local to global link.
3. Plan and implement a project.
4. Monitor, evaluate and identify future actions.

Click here for a list of free, downloadable WSEB resources and activities.

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