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Among the 88 princesses who vied for the title Miss Earth, only one stood tall and out-shined the rest. She's no other than the 22 years old Canadian representative Jessica Nicole Trisko, a half-Canadian, half-Filipino descent. The new queen of the said pageant will succeed her predecessor Ms. Chile, Hil Hernandez, as the bearer of environmental awareness throughout the world. Ms. Canada, was a Ph.D. political science student of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The results for judging the new queen of the said pageant was stiff, since both Ms. Canada and her runner-up, Ms. India had the same brilliant answer on how will they tell the blind child the beauty of mother nature. But Ms. Canada's poetic and profound answer hailed her to the crown against the three other finalist namely, Ms. India, Ms. Venezuela, and Ms. Spain.

The competition itself was difficult since from 88 ladies competing, only the top 16 were chosen to proceed further. The following 16 semi-finalist were as follows: Jessica Nicole Trisko (Ms. Canada); Eva Čerešňáková (Ms. Czech Republic); Themys Febriel (Ms. Dominican Republic); Nanka Mamasakhlisi (Ms. Georgia); Pooja Chitgopekar (Ms. India); Amale Al-Khoder (Ms. Lebanon); Elodie Delor (Ms. Martinique); Stacey Garvey (Ms. Nigeria); Odilia Pineda (Ms. Peru); Alina Gheorge (Ms. Romania); Bokang Montjane (Ms. South Africa); Angela Gomez Duran (Ms. Spain); Ivana Gagula (Ms. Sweden); Stefanie Gossweiler (Ms. Switzerland); Jiraporn Sing-ieam (Ms. Thailand); and Silvana Santaella (Ms. Venezuela).

From 16 semi-finalist, only 8 of them survived to grace the stage of the University of the Philippines theater, with their Filipiniana inspired clothes. The 8 remaining contestants' wit on environmental awareness were also tested on a question and answer portion with which questions where picked from different individuals who promote environmental awareness in the different fields. From the remaining 8 only 4 contestants were picked to represent the titles Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, hence hailing Ms. Canada as the new queen of the said competition.

(Photo Courtesy of Nhan Dan)

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