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The Young Darwin Prize is a competition to find the best nature news videos.

If your school or community group is doing something practical to conserve biodiversity, why not make a short news report about it and enter our competition?

There are two entry categories:

• ages 7–11 years (Key Stage 2 or equivalent)
• ages 11–14 years (Key Stage 3 or equivalent).

Groups of up to 10 children submit a short video, no longer than two and a half minutes, reporting on a local biodiversity project.

Entries can be uploaded and viewed on the competition website from 22 May 2010. The closing date is 31 August 2010.

The first prize is £500 for the winning group in each age category to visit to a local biodiversity site of special interest and class copies of a biodiversity book. Winners will be invited to a VIP event at the Natural History Museum to collect their prize and present their film. They will also go on a behind-the-scenes tour and meet a Museum scientist. Second prizes are class copies of a biodiversity book, free exhibition tickets and the opportunity to meet a Museum scientist.

The Young Darwin Prize is organised by the Natural History Museum, supported by Defra.