Our global competition is now closed! Stay tuned for winner announcements later this summer.
Everyone can take part… No perfect lines needed – just bring your imagination, creativity, and a love for biodiversity.
Our mission is to bring biodiversity into people’s lives in unexpected, magical, and thought-provoking ways.
We aim to spark curiosity, inspire compassion, and ignite the desire to protect nature – ultimately slowing biodiversity loss.
Through our artwork competitions, we cultivate a new generation of biodiversity heroes.
We believe in a better world.
Our Story
Founded in 2016, we (Angela & Eileen) started this journey in a Dublin pub, brainstorming ideas over hot chocolates on a cold and wet January evening. Within just a couple of weeks our first ever biodiversity-themed artwork competition was open for entries! A lot has happened since then, and we’ve tons of exciting plans for the future. Learn more about what we do below.
Perhaps more than our own words, our story is best told through the artwork of the children who have engaged with us over the years – and so we have included a selection of their artworks…
Biodiversity Art Competitions
We coordinate nature-themed artwork competitions for kids & teens (and occasionally older humans!) at locations around the world. Winning artworks are converted into postcards, so that local biodiversity can be shared to every corner of the globe, one postcard at a time.
Since we launched in 2016, we have held ten of these competitions on four continents around the world: in British Columbia, Canada (2018); Germany (2021); Ireland (2016, 2019, 2020, 2024); Netherlands (2020); Philippines (2017); Madagascar (2018), and Alaska (2021).
In 2020 we introduced our Junior Ambassador programme to honour our most enthusiastic participants.
Local Focus | Global Impact
We embrace a bottom-up, community led approach – partnering with local organisations including N/GOs, nonprofits, and small businesses – who share our goal of spreading knowledge and joy about biodiversity, sustainability, and/or art.
We have directly engaged nearly 10,000 children to date through our competitions – and impacted countless others through the ripple effect.
A purpose-driven venture
We are a volunteer run non-profit social enterprise.
You can support our work by purchasing postcards on our Etsy site. 100% of funds from sales go directly back into the initiative, helping us turn our ideas for future projects into reality.
Coming Soon…
While our focus over the past eight years has been on coordinating biodiversity-themed art competitions for children, we are in the process of expanding our activities in order to have a greater impact.
Art & biodiversity studio days
In the coming months, we will be holding nature-themed art studio days for children in urban spaces, in which we will encourage attendees to interact with and think about biodiversity in fun and creative ways. These will be subsidised, so that all who wish to attend are able to take part.
“Re-greening” urban spaces
We will also be launching a new initiative to raise awareness of biodiversity and “regreen” urban spaces by showcasing winning artworks from our Dublin 8 micro-competition on various platforms scattered across the city.
Underlying it all
Dr Jane Goodall (one of our favourite humans in the world!) once said,
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.”
We try to bring this mindset to life in all of our work; it is core to our underlying ethos and approach. (And we love this quote so much, we even included it in our constitution!)
Our ‘pack’ of supporters:
Ireland
Germany
The Netherlands
British Columbia, Canada
Madagascar (2018)
Philippines (2017)
Ireland (2016, 2019, 2020)
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We are also very thankful for the generous financial support provided by I’m A Scientist who provided the initial funding to get this project up and running, and UTown@UBC Community Grants for making the BC competition possible.
The Wild Postcard Project 