Wednesday, December 22, 2010

November 26th- Time to Say good-bye to the Land of Amur Tiger

Well, it was sad to leave beautiful Vladivostok city. 

Even the summit was finished but our path toward the Tiger Conservation is never ended. 



!!! Let's Save the Tiger together !!!

November 25th- Visiting the Ocean International Children Camp.

           It was fascinating to visit the OKEAH or the  Ocean International Children Camp. Just by observing the venue, I could tell how enthusiastic the children are like when they come to this amazing camp in summer time. They would go back home with precious experience, full of knowledge and memorial time with friends from all around the world.



Closure of YTS

       At the end, the summit was closed officially. The youth delegates summarized their action plans which they will take upon their returns. Then, it was the diploma handing sessions. WWF Russia gave us some pretty souvenirs. We also gave some nice souvenirs from our countries to our hard-working WWF officials and organizers. Without them, this summit wouldn’t be successful. Millions thanks to these generous people. 




          
                                                 ( Diploma handing session )
                                                  
        At 2pm, it was our farewell lunch time which brought a big impression to all delegates. It seemed to be a special collection of the Russian food and they were amazing. Everybody appreciated it very much.Then, we had some cool performances and said good-bye to two of our Russian cute delegates. Most of the delegates played guitar and sang which was awesome. It was such a wonderful day ever.:)
I felt like time really flied. It seemed like we just got here but one day to go and then we would be home. 


                                                  ( Delicious Farewell Lunch )

      

TV-Bridge conference with the International Tiger Forum in St. Petersburg

            Today was the big day for us. Every moment was focused on the TV-bridge conference to the heads of government at the International Tiger forum in St. Petersburg. After two day of preparation, we were ready to go for this honorable event. It was really impressive to see all delegates dressed up in  the national costumes. Everybody was so excited, especially our six speakers. Some of the WWF officials didn’t even sit at all. They were. They had put a lot of effort to organize this. They even stood behind the cameras trying to encourage us to smile. They are so admirable. 


          Delegates with National Costumes



 Before the TV-bridge started, we were listening to a few speeches from the Prime ministers of three tiger range countries but unfortunately the Lao PM would talk after our tv-bridge. It’s alright, I was very happy that he was at the International Tiger forum and support the tiger conservation.

          Finally, it was time for us to start. It was started with the video of what we had been doing during the summit. Then, our beautiful MC began to speak, following with the speeches from 6 delegates who are from India, Laos, China, UK, Nepal and Russia . Everything went perfectly well  and we got very positive compliments. This was a really significant moment for all of us, we are very proud to participate in this Youth Tiger Summit and obtained a chance to let our voice heard. 


                                                        TV-Bridge Conference


          

Youth Tiger Outreach Project November 22nd

After two days of field trips, it was time for us to discuss our youth action plans. Each country presented the outreach project. Then we discussed and gave suggestions. After that, we had to come up with the international youth tiger action plan for the tiger conservation. So, we came up with
  • -          Tiger Ambassadors public awareness movement.
  • -          International Tiger Day celebration.
  • -          Youth Tiger Network for work coordination

In addition, all delegates will conduct other activities such as providing educational information at schools or universities, online activities, competition or volunteer work related to tiger conservation.
In the evening, we went to rehearse the TV-bridge conference. Everybody wanted this honor conference to appear the best to the tiger range countries Prime Ministers and other high ranking participants.We  rehearsed very hard and we  got back to the hotel at 2am.