Finalist

Help! Help!

submitted by DINGLI PRIMARY : Eliza Abela  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): College website and fb page, other, school magazine, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Finalist

Plastic is suffocating and polluting all forms of life on Earth! (Photo was taken under adult supervision. The intention of the student submitting this photo was not to promote dangerous practices but to emphasise that excessive plastic usage is suffocating the planet and humanity).



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Visiting a Garden

submitted by Xewkija Primary : Rosa Marie Borg  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist

Don’t pay the price. Keep your city clean.



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Water Crisis

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Eco-schools Committee  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist

Climate change is disrupting weather patterns leading to unreliable rainfall, aggravating water scarcity and easier contamination of remaining fresh water supplies. Such impacts can drastically affect the quantity and quality of water that all living things need to survive especially for countries like Malta. What previously were all year-round water holes, sought by tired migrating birds, are now drying up. The Maltese Islands are dependent on a constant rainfall which feeds the water table and lack in consistency is resulting in less water seeping through the rocks. According to the Maltese Islands Weather website, ‘rain over the course of February 2022 was very scarce. In fact, it was among the driest ever’.



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