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Boy Scout World Conservation Award

This Award is meant for Scouts BSA.

2016
The World Conservation Award provides an opportunity for individual Scouts to 'think globally' and 'act locally' to preserve and improve our environment. This program is designed to make youth members aware that all nations are closely related through natural resources and that we are interdependent with our world environment.
The design of the badge incorporates the panda logo of the World Wildlife Fund, which sponsors the award on a worldwide basis with the fleur-de-lis, which is found on or as the basis for many nations' Scouting emblems. The World Conservation Award is earned by Scouts and Venturers in many other nations outside of the United States.

If a Cub Scout earned the Cub Scout version of this badge, it may not transfer to the Scouts BSA uniform - the scout must earn the award as a Scouts BSA member.

Earn the Scouts BSA World Conservation Award by:

Earn the following merit badges:
Participate in a conservation project as part of an approved Scouting program totaling at least three hours that addresses a conservation need common to more than one country.

The World Conservation Award is worn on the uniform shirt, centered on the right pocket as a TEMPORARY patch. Only ONE Temporary patch may be worn at a time.

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Comments:

Jun 07, 2015 - Pam Pinney

Why couldn't this patch be worn in the place of the purple world scout
Patch on the left upper side of the scout shirt?

Jun 07, 2015 - Scouter Paul

@Pam - Because it is a Temporary patch and does not belong in that position according to the official BSA uniform inspection sheet.

Jul 01, 2015 - Cindy Moran

Do we remove the World Conservation award patch from the uniform shirt when the scout becomes an adult scouter at the age of 18?

Jul 02, 2015 - Scouter Paul

@Cindy - It is a 'temporary' patch. Scouts and Scouters can wear one temporary patch of their choosing centered on the right pocket. So, as long as the patch was correctly positioned on the uniform, it can remain there as an adult.

Aug 30, 2015 - steel cross

If the underlying requirements are to earn permenanent mreiti badges, which they are, it seems illogical that this award is temporary. How can this equate to showing up for summer camp. And, if STEM and NOVA awards are in part based on peruenent acheivements, why would would a conservation related award be of less significance that a technology award? I guess because we don't value a kinder approach to the planet we live on. Just saying.

Sep 08, 2015 - Scouter Paul

@steel - I'm not sure what your concern is, but the term 'temporary' does not mean less significant. It only identifies how it is displayed on the uniform, not its worth.

Oct 21, 2015 - Annie Pigate

If it can be worn all the way through as an adult, how is that temporary? Isn't that permanent? Can we sew it completely on or do we just pin it temporarily?

Oct 21, 2015 - Bjorn Wang

I think there is some confusion here. Any patch designated to be worn on the right pocket is termed a temporary patch. You can choose to wear this patch, a NOVA award, or your jamboree patch from 1982. The idea is that you can only wear one patch at a time in that location and you can choose what patch it is.
The Conservation Award simply does not have a separate dedicated location on the uniform outside of the right pocket which is designated for "temporary" patches.
You can choose to wear a patch permanently in that location. That choice is made by each scout or scouter.

Oct 22, 2015 - Scouter Joe

The World Conservation Award can be separated into three main families, Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturing. There is no World Conservation Award for Adults.

For that reason it is deemed temporary.

Feb 28, 2016 - Richard Apgar

I seen boys wearing on the back of their sashes is wrong to wear them there

Feb 28, 2016 - Scouter Paul

@Richard - BSA patches categorized as 'temporary' may be displayed on the back of the merit badge sash according to the 2015 Guide to Awards and Insignia.

Jul 26, 2016 - Den Leader

You can purchase a plastic holder to put temporary patches in to wear them over the right pocket. This system makes it easy to exchange what patch the boys want to wear as their temporary patch.

Sep 17, 2016 - Mary Beth Bowling

I am thinking that some temporary patches have a loop on them so the button can be used under the flap on th ed right side. Maybe a loop could be added to these types of awards would be handy & signify how it is worn. Unless there is a reason BSA does not do this.

Sep 17, 2016 - Scouter Paul

@Mary Beth - The scout shops sell plastic patch hangers for patches like this that don't have the loops. The patch goes in the hanger and the hanger hangs on the pocket button.

Aug 30, 2022 - Anonymous

Given that the world conservation award is intended to be worn on the right pocket, it is too small and looks silly. A larger and more interesting patch design would probably inspire more scouts to earn Soil&Water and/or Fish&Wildlife (which is the only requirement that a scout wouldn't necessarily already be doing).

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