Congratulations to all of our winners of the 2020 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) New Zealand Competition. We’re proud to be the national operator for this internationally accredited competition which is run under the Foundation For Environmental Education banner (FEE). The New Zealand YRE Jury, composed of experts in the fields of journalism, photography and environmental sustainable development, met at our offices in the third week of September to review the submissions and determine the winners. Members of the jury included TV journalist and Keep New Zealand Beautiful Ambassador Melissa Chan-Green, environmental photographer Jacki Key, Creative Director Media Studies at University of Auckland Folko Boermans, and Corporate Affairs Manager at Mars New Zealand Hannah Van der Heyden. The YRE New Zealand Competition first place winners will receive automatic entry in to the Global YRE competition which will take place in mid 2021. Watch the YRE 2020 awards presentation here. Article – 11-14 years 1st place Cat Food Packaging: Exposed Senali Vasanthathilake Queen Margaret College 2nd place A Super-sized Plastic Problem Juliet Grotrian Queen Margaret College 3rd place Seaside Homes Reduced to Litter James Alebardi Havelock North Intermediate Honourable mention I Can Make a Difference Daniel Moore Aparima College Honourable mention Really Holly Preuss Queen Margaret College Article – 15–18 years 1st place Chews a Better Future Emilia Parker Lynfield College 2nd place Plastic Motion of the Ocean Nina Tata and Bridget Ford Blue Mountain College 3rd place No placing Photograph – 11-14 years 1st place Trapped Shanaiya Singh-Ali St Cuthbert’s College 2nd place A World Suffocating in Plastic Katie Mathieson, Jenna Allison Havelock North Intermediate 3rd place Break Free Bella Fairbairn St Cuthbert’s College Photograph – 15-18 years 1st place Problematic Polystyrene Emilia Parker Lynfield College 2nd place Replaced Aimee Oswald Westlake Girls’ High School 3rd place The Suffocation of a Culture Te Amorutu Broughton Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga Honourable mention Our rivers and our ocean is suffering because of us, the human being. which leaves us as humans to suffer the consequences Teoarani Maxwell Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga Video – 11-14 years 1st place Small steps BIG CHANGE Diantae Rewi, Jenny Pehi Orautoha School 2nd place Save the Manatees! Calum Salisbury and Oskar Blom Seatoun School 3rd place Swimming in Plastic Ella Soltau, and Sharon Jones Havelock North Intermediate Honourable Mention Our Rubbish Future Coco Giera, Madeleine Tuohy, Taleisha Dayal Seatoun School Honourable mention Don’t be a litterbug! Will Davies, Tobie Crawford, Harry Renwick Seatoun School Video – 15-18 years No awards given in this category
