That was the odds that 13-year-old Trisha Co Reyes beat when she claimed the top prize for this year’s International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment organized by Bayer and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Trisha’s painting showed a girl opening a curtain with pictures of felled trees and dead animals against a sad, polluted landscape.
Outside, the scenery was anything but it showed a variety of animals and plants in living color.
According to her, she wanted to show both sides of the “Life in the Forests,” this year’s theme.
She got inspired while walking through the forests in the Philippines and wanted to show through her painting how forests are being threatened by environmental destruction and how beautiful they can be if people just take care of them.
“Forests are essential… we need to value the biological treasures that our Earth possesses so that we will still have forests in the future,” she said.
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