Bangkok--22 Dec--Total Quality PR
Airbus has rewarded eight talented young winners of its international biodiversity photography competition, ‘See the Bigger Picture’, with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Washington, D.C. The youngsters, chosen from 99 countries, spent three nights in the American capital where National Geographic has its historic headquarters.
As part of their prize, from 3rd to 6th December the young photographers, accompanied by a guardian, visited the National Geographic Headquarters, where they saw the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibition at the National Geographic museum, toured the city, and took part in a photography workshop with world-renowned National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
The talented winners are: Anthony Avellano, 12, from California, USA; Chad Nelson, 12, from the Dominican Republic; Alex Marttunen, 11, from Finland; Cl?mence Bonnefous, 8, from France; Vinzent Raintung, 8, and Julia Kresse, 15, from Germany; Patryk Majchrzak, 16, from Poland; and Prerona Kundu, 11, from Washington D.C., USA.
The international photography competition was developed through a partnership between Airbus, National Geographic and the Secretariat of the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and it encouraged young people to engage in nature and consider the global loss of biodiversity.
The highlight of the D.C. visit was a red-carpet awards ceremony at National Geographic on Friday 4th December, where the 8 winners were presented with a certificate and signed photograph from Joel Sartore and Executive Secretary of the CBD, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf. The ceremony was attended by ambassadors of the winners’ countries along with high-profile figures from Airbus, National Geographic, the CBD and other environmental groups.
Allan McArtor, Chairman of Airbus Americas, speaking at the awards ceremony, said: “This photography competition is part of a wider acknowledgement of our responsibility as an international company to support a more sustainable world, and we are using our global outreach to raise awareness of the need to preserve the variety of life on earth. Our relationship with the CBD and National Geographic has allowed us to play a small part in the important task of raising awareness of the issue biodiversity amongst the youth of today.”
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