The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, through the Biodiversity Foundation, has awarded the prizes for the first edition of the “Ideas for the Planet” competition.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, through the Biodiversity Foundation, has awarded the prizes for the first edition of the “Ideas for the Planet” competition.

This initiative, aimed at children (from 7 to 11 years old) and young people (from 12 to 16 years old), aimed to get children and young people to analyse their environment and propose their ideas to take care of the planet by capturing them in an image. Those in charge of presenting the awards were Guillermina Yanguas, general director of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Sonia Castañeda, director of the Biodiversity Foundation, and Basilio Rada, director of the Autonomous Agency of National Parks.

To this end, the Biodiversity Foundation set up an online space on its website, www.fundacion-biodiversidad.es, where it has been collecting these ideas, through a photo and a brief descriptive text. From among the ideas and photographs received, the Jury, meeting at the headquarters of the Biodiversity Foundation on November 11, has chosen one per category based on the following criteria: the creativity of the idea, the impact it can have on caring for the planet and the creativity of the photo. The Jury was made up of Guillermina Yanguas, Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Sonia Castañeda, Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Carmen Bieger, Director of the Antena 3 Foundation, Juan Luis Cano, journalist and President of the Gomaespuma Foundation and Iñaki Relanzón, photographer.

In the children’s category (from 7 to 11 years old), the Jury has decided to award the idea “The Oceans Cleaner Ship”, a boat that cleans the dirt accumulated in the sea and that has been sent by Alba Martínez, 8 years old. In the youth category (from 12 to 16 years old), the winner was Esperanza Sancho, 15 years old, for her initiative “MiniReservas”, whose idea is to create a network of small spaces for wildlife in cities, each of them managed by different people. In addition, the Jury has decided to award a “Second Prize” to the initiative “El Arbolbús”, the work of Sejal Michaela Smith, 11 years old, which recreates a bus with plants and trees inside.

The winners have been presented with a weekend trip for four people to one of the Parks that make up the National Parks Network: