A wild S4P event ever with nearly 300 participants in Cat Tien, Vietnam
On Sunday 21 January 2024, 36 competitors and 250 supporters, coming from 9 high schools of 3 provinces in the South of Vietnam – Dong Nai, Lam Dong, and Binh Phuoc, participated in the first live S4P competition in Vietnam – a huge S4P event ever at Cat Tien National Park.
The topic was Speaking for those species that cannot Speak. Students participated in teams of 4 and in 4 different categories: speaking, drama, art, and writing.
Vu Thi Bao Quynh, a student, said: “Due to the high profit, and personal benefits, the human being keeps being emotionless and does not care for the painfulness and exhaustion of the naive victims. Chasing the monetary benefits, human beings do not know that poaching wildlife is the first step to make their natural habitats deducing and destroyed, to destroy ecology, and that leads to consequences such as natural disasters, earthquakes, forest burning, etc. Then human beings themselves have to suffer the consequences they create by themselves. Eventually, they are their own victims.”
Thang Le, the artist, is one of the judges and he commented on the first prize: “Participants from Ton Duc Thang Highschool are very skillful in drawing, have good skills in arrangement and construction of the drawing elements. The content of the drawing shows their messages – let’s stop poaching, and trading naive wild animals before too late. Let’s together protect them, love them, and create a peaceful planet for human beings and wild animals“.
There were team awards and prizes for the best in each category.
- The First Team Award belongs to Ton Duc Thang High School.
- The Second Team Award belongs to Da Teh High School.
- The Third Team Award belongs to Thong Nhat High School.
- Doan Ket High School got the Best Slogan prize.
- Cat Tien High School got the Best Speech prize.
- Da Teh High School got the Best Drama Performance prize.
- Ton Duc Thang High School got the Best Artwork prize. To get this amazing artwork idea, 29 classes in the school had joined in the inner competition in their school and had chosen the best work for the official competition with other schools.
Mr. Nguyen Van Binh, Principal of Ton Duc Thang Highschool, said he hoped that the S4P competition would be organized annually in Cat Tien so all schools would get a chance to connect, learn, and share knowledge related to wildlife conservation all together.
S4P congratulates CTNP for the very professional way in which the competition was planned and conducted. A very high-quality event. Hard-working staff. Thanks to all the sponsors for their generous support: USAID, WWF, Bellalove Foundation, Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, HDBank, and Mernard.
The event was written on popular newspapers and national media.
The students speak for the wildlife on Saigon Tiep Thi Học sinh lên tiếng vì động vật hoang dã (sgtiepthi.vn)
Speak for species who are unable to speak, on Nong Nghiep.vn Giới trẻ lên tiếng: Nói thay những loài không thể nói (nongnghiep.vn)
Ton Duc Thang Highschool students draw artwork about condemning illegal wildlife trade, on Law and Life online magazine, Học sinh trường THPT Tôn Đức Thắng vẽ tranh lên án hành vi buôn bán động vật hoang dã trái phép (luatvadoisong.vn)
