Negros Occidental hosts 26 Ms Earth candidates
BACOLOD CITY — Miss Earth contestants from 26 countries, who arrived in Negros Occidental on Monday, called for a united effort to save the world from the ravages of global warming by going green.
The 26 of the 80 Miss Earth beauties were in the province for their pre-talent competition at L'Fisher Hotel in Bacolod City Monday night.
At a press presentation Monday noon at the Planta Centro Bacolod Hotel, the girls batted for the preservation of the environment.
Miss Tanzania Evelyne Amasi, Miss Chinese Taipei Yi-Wen Chen, Miss Guam Maria Luisa Santos, Miss Honduras Alejandra Mendoza, Miss Kosovo Elza Marku, Miss Macau Jia Pei, Miss Nigeria Modesta Alozie, Miss Puerto Rico Dignelis Taymi Jimenez, Miss Scotland Sarah Finlay, Miss Singapore Valerie Lim, Miss Slovenia Maja Jamnik, Miss Switzerland Graziella Rogers, Miss Thailand Rujinan Phanseethum and Miss Northern Ireland Kayleigh O'Reilly all agreed that there was an urgent need for everyone to contribute to the protection of the environment.
“We all should not wait for tomorrow, we should do it now,” Amasi said.
O' Reilly also cited the need for people to change. "We should start making changes within ourselves and unite to protect Mother Earth," she said.
Phanseethum maintained that “protecting the environment was protecting one's self.”
Miss Brazil Larissa Ramos, who is studying biology in Universidade Federal do Amazonas, stressed the need to work against contamination of the environment.
Miss Paraguay Gabriela Rejala and Miss Samoa Varuna Curry noted that the preservation of the balance of nature would help prevent calamities.
Source: globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews
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