Prizes awarded to children and students for exceptional efforts to protect dolphins
The children were just a few of the manyindividuals who have helped raise awareness of these threatened mammals as partof オプショナルツアー ドルフィン Year of the Dolphin. Set up by the UN’s Convention on Migratory Species, theオプショナルツアー ドルフィン Year of the Dolphin has recently been extended into 2008.
Rewarded for their extra effort to helpdolphins, the prize winners all completed the ‘Dolphin Diploma’, an educationinitiative created for the オプショナルツアー ドルフィン Year of the Dolphin by WDCS, the Whale and DolphinConservation Society. As part of thediploma, children learn about dolphins, complete a quiz, as well as demonstratetheir passion by doing something active to help dolphins.
Special prize winners included, Harry inAustralia, who gave up his Tooth-Fairy money to help raise enough to Adopt aDolphin with WDCS, Hannah in the UK, who did a local beach clean-up andcollected almost 2000 pieces of litter and Yvonne in Germany who did abeautiful drawing. Prizes included fluffy dolphins and dolphin-watchingexcursions for these extra-special participants.
From hand-made dolphin buttons, to cakesales, and science fairs to animated movies, children around the world havecome up with a huge number of ways to make a difference to these beautifulanimals. To recognize their efforts, partners of the オプショナルツアー ドルフィン Year of the Dolphin wantedto reward those children who showed particular commitment and passion, and toencourage tomorrow’s conservationists.
Kath Warhurst of WDCS said, ‘Thedetermination of these children is a compelling reason for us all to work evenharder to protect dolphins and their environment. They are telling us they wantto share their future with these animals, and we should listen harder.’
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