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- Protection of the environment is a significant challenge in Algeria. Various environmental associations, activists and national directorates have recently increased their efforts to focus on and achieve sustainability. Leading associations are often youth led and involve children of different ages in voluntary activities, including cleaning-up public spaces, planting trees and collecting waste around their villages. Looking at the role of children in sustaining the environment, it is worth considering how they understand the concept of “sustainability”, and how they comprehend their role as young defenders of the environment. It is also worth exploring how these children and youth imagine themselves and their environment in the future, and their understanding of the challenges facing the country around climate and biodiversity loss that will disproportionately affect Algeria and the Mediterranean. I believe this is under-researched in Algeria and the wider region. To explore this and achieve the aim of the current paper, a qualitative research study will be conducted with a group of children and youth who are taking part in two associations located in Bejaia and Boumerdas. To collect the data, I will conduct semi-structured interviews with the participants. An inductive thematic analysis will be used to analyse the data. The findings of this study will be presented and discussed further in this paper.
