National Young Reporters for the Environment (NYRE) Competition
Unleash Your Voice, Capture Change!
The National Young Reporters for the Environment (NYRE) competition is back for 2025! This annual competition challenges youth from 10 - 24 years old across Malaysia to raise awareness of environmental issues through writing, photography, and videography. If you're passionate about storytelling and sustainability, this is your chance to make an impact!​
The Themes
The Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) programme aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promoting a holistic and community-driven approach to sustainability. Participants are encouraged to explore real-world environmental challenges in their communities, connecting their work to key SDG themes.
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Before choosing their topics, young reporters reflect on how their stories, photos, or videos relate to the global sustainability agenda. The programme focuses on three (3) core themes of creative environmental journalism, guiding participants to produce impactful, solution-driven reports.
Pollution
Loss of Biodiversity
Climate Change
Every year, the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) shines the spotlight on one global theme for young environmental storytellers to explore!
Last year, the focus was Ecosystem Restoration as an initiative under the collaboration with UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030. Students dove into topics like reforestation, river clean-ups, and protecting biodiversity. And this year's global theme is:
'Food Security & Climate Change'
Categories
How To Join?
Step 1
Choose the media category you are interested in. It can be Photography, Videography or Article.
Step 2
Choose the type of competition under your chosen category. You can refer them above.
Step 3
Register for our competition and stay updated by following our social media platforms.
Step 4
Prepare your finished creative work in the respective format i.e. Photo in png/jpeg, Video in mp4 and Article in docx.
Step 5
Submit your creative work through the Google Form provided on our social media pages.
Step 6
Sit back, relax and wait for our winner announcement in November 2025!