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Write on For Youth Environment Forum
Taranaki Regional Council media release
31 January
2008
For immediate release
WRITE ON FOR YOUTH
ENVIRONMENT FORUM
Senior Taranaki secondary school students are being given an opportunity to write their way to a national forum on the environment.
The Taranaki Regional Council is running an essay competition to find three delegates to the Youth Environment Forum to be held in Wellington from 27 April to 1 May.
Open to young people aged 16 to 18, the essay competition closes on 20 March. Entrants should submit an essay of no more than 500 words covering:
- The key environmental issues facing Taranaki
in the next decade.
- Why they are important.
- What
can be done to protect the environment.
Background
information can be found on the Taranaki Regional Council
website, www.trc.govt.nz, and all reference sources should
be acknowledged in a bibliography.
Entries should be sent to: Youth Environment Forum, Taranaki Regional Council, Private Bag 713, Stratford 4352, and include name, date of birth, address, contact phone number and name of school.
The Youth Environment Forum is an initiative of the Ministry for the Environment and the Sir Peter Blake Trust. This year’s forum will be the fifth.
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