Portal:Scouting/Scouting news archive/2007


 * December 28: Girl Guiding to return to remote Tana River District, Kenya. Full Story


 * December 28: Scouting New Zealand's centennial international jamboree opens near Christchurch. Full Story


 * December 21: British Scout spends a year sleeping in a tent to celebrate Scouting's centenary and raise money for charity. Full Story


 * December 21: Ten Fijian Scouts denied visas for jamboree in New Zealand. Full Story


 * December 14: U.S. Naval Officers help Bahamian Scouts with clean-up of recreation site. Full Story


 * December 14: Scouting New Zealand announces first increase in membership in 25 years. Full Story


 * December 7: Fiji Girl Guides Association holds annual camp again after 20 year lapse. Full Story


 * December 4: Ohio Boy Scouts robbed while selling Christmas trees. Full Story


 * December 3: Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America face eviction. Full Story


 * December 2: Girl Guides on Barbados start 90th anniversary celebrations. Full Story


 * November 26: WAGGGS partners with UNIFEM in a global campaign to end violence against women. Full Story


 * November 25: Cleveland Sellers to receive Eagle Scout Badge at 64 years of age, more than four decades after it was earned. Full Story


 * November 24: Indonesian five-yearly National Special Scout Jamboree held in East Jakarta. Full Story


 * November 14: Indonesian Scouts announce need for relaunch to revitalize movement - despite 21 million active members. Full Story


 * November 12: Eduardo Missoni, Secretary General of WOSM, departs from the WSB after WOSM's recent crisis. Read more at User:Jergen/WOSM crisis


 * November 10: Scout museum inaugurated in Bangladesh. Full Story


 * November 5: Guides in New Zealand change name, uniform and promise and plan centenary jamboree. Full Story


 * November 2: WOSM institutional crisis--the WSF, BSA and SSR suspend their payments to WOSM. Read more at User:Jergen/WOSM crisis


 * October 30: Study by Girlguiding UK of top British women shows female only experiences in Brownies and Guides contributed to their career successes. Full Story


 * October 26: Mural featuring Scouts by young Hergé is discovered in school in Brussels. Full Story


 * October 23: WAGGGS attends Anita Roddick's memorial service by special invitation. Full Story


 * October 23: 14th National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines opens. Full Story


 * October 23: Camp Helendade partially burns in the California wildfires of Oct 2007. Full Story Full Story Full Story


 * October 23: British Scout group sells special B-P Beer. Full Story


 * October 21: Scouts in Romania aid flood victims. Full Story


 * October 20: US Boy Scout group rescues injured hiker using improvised stretcher. Full Story


 * October 20: Hong Kong Scouts help patrol hill fire blackspots during Chung Yeung Festival. Full Story


 * October 19: 50th Jamboree on the Air gets under way with the theme "Around the World in 50 hours". Full Story


 * October 15: U.S. Boy Scout survives bear attack in Pennsylvania by playing dead. Full Story


 * October 9: Descendants of Baden-Powell and Boyce meet for first time. Full Story


 * October 9: Malaysian Scouts announce plan for expansion to 1 million members. Full Story


 * September 27: Canadian Scout group's scrap metal drive attracts national attention. Full Story


 * September 24: Lost Boy Scout troop found in North Carolina. Full Story


 * September 21: Scouts and Guides worldwide celebrate International Day of Peace. Reports from WAGGGS and WOSM


 * September 19: The search for missing adventurer and Distinguished Eagle Scout Steve Fossett is being scaled back. Full Story


 * September 17: Our Chalet celebrates its 75th birthday. Full Story


 * September 15: Street in Panama City named after Baden-Powell, as part of Scouting centenary celebrations. Full Story


 * September 15: US Boy Scout bitten by black bear in Pennsylvania. Full Story


 * September 13: International team of Scouts reaches summit of Baden-Powell Peak, Nepal. Full Story


 * September 13: British Girl Guides achieve two world firsts — the highest altitude inflation of any balloon and the highest recorded tethered balloon display. Full Story


 * September 5: Peruvian Girl Scouts help children affected by earthquake. Full Story


 * August 21: Catholic Guides of Ireland launch new Chief Commissioner Award. Full Story


 * August 20: British Cub pack thanked as heroin find leads to convictions. Full Story


 * August 15: A Navajo religious emblem is being prepared for the Boy Scouts of America. Full Story


 * August 9: Police search for 13 Scouts missing after the 21st World Scout Jamboree. Full Story


 * August 8: Scout hut in Suffolk, UK could be the oldest in existence. Full Story


 * August 5: Four Algerian Scouts drown at a beach in rough weather. Full Story


 * August 1: Indian Scouts and Guides flagged off on 1,600 km cycle rally. Full Story


 * August 1: Scouting's sunrise is celebrated by Scouts worldwide. Reports by country: Australia; Canada; Egypt; Malta; UK


 * July 30: Lightning strikes Boy Scout crew on Philmont Scout Ranch, USA. Full Story


 * July 27: 21st World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, UK begins. Jamboree news


 * July 25: Woman and child rescued from chest-deep flood water by Scout in Texas, United States. Full Story


 * July 23: Atlantic Jamboree 2007 opens in Morocco. Full Story


 * July 22: The Girls' Brigade Caribbean and Americas Regional Camp on Antigua closes. Full Story


 * July 20: Boy Scouts airlifted to escape wildfire in Utah, United States. Full Story


 * July 18: Five American Girl Scouts to receive a Youth Achievement Award at the 4th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations. Full Story


 * July 17: Irish Girl Guides launch an outreach program to attract immigrants. Full Story


 * July 17: Stephen Lewis and Wangari Maathai receive the World Citizenship Award from WAGGGS. Full Story


 * July 17: First girl to represent the Singapore Scout Association overseas will go to 21st World Scout Jamboree. Full Story


 * July 14: 11th Caribbean Cuboree attended by 1300 cub scouts from 12 Caribbean countries. Full Story


 * July 14: Maize maze created by British family to celebrate Scouting centenary. Full Story


 * July 12: British Scout leader sells bottle of flood water on ebay to raise money for victims. Full Story


 * July 12: Lebanese Scouts denied visa to attend Swedish jamboree. Full Story


 * July 9: Peace Caravan of Community Mediators from the Amahoro Amani Project starts its journey across African Great Lakes. Full Story


 * July 7: Campa le Cheile, the 2007 international camp of the Irish Girl Guides opens. Full Story


 * July 7: The Second WFIS World Jamboree opens near Medellín, Colombia. Website


 * July 5: Pope Benedict XVI praises the Scouting movement. Full Story


 * July 5: Copper thieves plunder Girl Guide camp in New Brunswick, Canada. Full Story


 * July 4: A new European regional office serving Muslim Scouts will be set up in Paris after an agreement between the International Union of Muslim Scouts and Scouts Musulmans de France. Full Story


 * July 2: Renovated Malawian Scout center will be handed over to the Scout Association of Malawi by the Scout Association. Full Story


 * July 1: The Boys' Brigade UK has set up a project to help the Boys' Brigade Cameroon to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency. Full Story


 * June 20: The Scout Association of Croatia is honored by President of Croatia Stjepan Mesić for its contribution to Croatian life. Full Story


 * June 13: Girl Scouts of the USA wins educational awards for resources about cars and girls with parents in prison. Full Story


 * June 12: An American Boy Scout rescues a 7 year old from burning dumpster. Full Story


 * June 11: The 21st World Scout Jamboree caused an increase in the world price of steel, it has been revealed. Full Story


 * June 9: Over 150,000 gather in Washington, D.C. to sing in celebration of the Girl Scouts of the USA's 95th anniversary. Full Story


 * June 9: Scouts in Iraq clear woodland to make a new campsite in Baghdad’s green zone. Full Story


 * June 7: The South African Scout Association's climate change project is praised. The first to be developed by a Scout association in a developing country, the program is now spreading around Africa. Full Story


 * June 7: Philadelphia to become largest city in U.S. without Boy Scout building. Full story


 * June 4: Ugandan Scouts urge their government to save Mabira forest from sugar farming. Full Story


 * June 3: A bear tries to pull an 11-year old Girl Scout from New Jersey out of her tent while she was asleep in her sleeping bag, at a campsite in Pennsylvania, USA. Full Story


 * May 31: In an unannounced vote, the Philadelphia City Council voted to evict the Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts from the building they have occupied since 1928. Full Story


 * May 28: Rain grounds Chief Scout's helicopter, but doesn't stop hundreds of thousands of British Scouts holding Centenary Camps. Full Story


 * May 24: An International Agoonoree starts on Jeju Island in South Korea. Full Story


 * May 17: Girlguiding UK announces a new strapline - girls in the lead. Full Story


 * May 12: Texan Scouts attempt to break the world record by simultaneously launching 965 model rockets. Full Story


 * May 11: Guiding in Ontario (Canada) will undergo an administrative restructuring, abandoning districts, divisions and areas. Full Story


 * May 5: Brownies and Cubs in Hong Kong become Healthy Eating Ambassadors. Full Story


 * May 4: The Australian Government has announced that 2008 will be the Year of the Scout in Australia. Full Story


 * April 29: 95 000 Belgian Scouts and Guides gather to celebrate the centenary of Scouting in and around Brussels. Full Story


 * April 27: Emmer Bereet hits movie theaters in Luxembourg today. This feature-length documentary about Scouting in Luxembourg juxtaposes the history of Scouting with the story of a group of Scouts in 2006. The title means Be Prepared. Full Story


 * April 23: A Beaver section is officially inaugurated by the The Scout Association of Malta. Full story


 * April 22: Scouts in Peterborough are the first in Britain to receive a Freedom of the City. Full Story


 * April 22: A British Scout leader is honoured by Queen Elizabeth II for saving the lives of a group of mountain walkers. Full Story


 * April 18: Boy Scout training saves the life of student in the Virginia Tech massacre. Full Story


 * April 15: A Golden Jubilee Jamboree is held on Hulhumalé by the Scout Association of Maldives. Full Story


 * April 14: The Seychelles Scout Association appoints Shelton Jolicoeur as its new Chief Scout. Jolicoeur is the former deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Seychelles. Full Story


 * April 13: European students studying abroad will have new opportunities to connect with local Scouts and Guides in new partnership between Europe Region WAGGGS, the European Scout Region and the Erasmus Student Network. Full Story


 * April 13: The first International Quaker Scout-Guide Gathering is held in Plainfield, Indiana, United States. Full Story


 * April 4: A U.S. court dismisses a lawsuit challenging government support of the BSA's National Scout Jamboree. Full Story


 * April 2: A proposed alternative uniform for the National Scout Organization of Thailand will allow Muslim children to join. Full Story


 * March 18: Swiss Scouts break a world record with an igloo village. Full Story


 * March 10: The Rover Peace Baton reaches its destination in the Philippines, after crossing 24 countries. Full Story


 * March 7: Salt Lake City, Utah, — A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a state lawsuit over a wildfire that burned 14,200 acres, officials said. Full Story


 * March 4: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Premier Sibusiso Ndebele calls for at least 200 000 Scouts and Guides in the province by the end of September. Full Story


 * February 26: A study for Girlguiding UK finds young women in Guiding to be ambitious, career-minded and optimistic, but facing inequalities and pressures. Full Story


 * February 25: Scouting is to become compulsory in schools in Pakistan from September 2007. Full Story


 * February 22: The Kenyan Government is planning to give financial aid to the Kenya Girl Guides Association, First Lady Lucy Kibaki announced today. Full Story


 * February 22: The Scout and Guide Spirit Flame is lit at Robert Baden-Powell's grave side in Kenya. It sets off on a journey to reach Brownsea Island, UK on 2007-07-31, the eve of Scouting's Sunrise. Full Story


 * February 15: Scouting New Zealand will be holding its first National Mudslide Day this month. Full Story


 * February 10: The Gambia Scout Association has appointed David Hafner as its Chief Commissioner. Hafner was formerly a secondary school principal. Full Story


 * February 4: Girlguiding UK is adding a hijab to its uniform in an attempt to encourage a more ethnically diverse membership. Full Story


 * January 31: Scouts in Bhutan celebrate their first National Jamboree. Full Story


 * January 28: Malek Gabr, Bronze Wolf and former WOSM Deputy Secretary General, has died. Full Story


 * January 25: Girl Scout Research Study Institute issues report on girls, obesity, and healthy living. Full Story


 * January 8: Parents are the people most admired by young people, but boredom is a problem. A ground breaking report by The Scout Association reveals young people's attitudes and motivations in the UK today. Full Story


 * January 3: A 14-year-old Scout has become the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean singlehanded. Full Story


 * January 3: Issues such as eating disorders and sex are being incorporated into the peer education program for Guides in the UK after feedback from girls. Full Story


 * January 1: The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts sends congratulations to Scouts around the world on reaching their 100th birthday. Full Story