Miss Earth 2007

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• Surprising results! Miss Canada was not much noticed during the whole competition and she emerged as the winner.
• India and Venezuela make the top 4 for the second year in a row. Venezuela makes it for the 3rd time. Canada and Spain for first time.
• Big favorite and PB's Miss Earth 2007 does not make top 16. Korea also. Philippines who makes the top 16 every year fails to make it for first time.

Miss Earth 2007 Final Predictions:

Winner: Ukraine
1st runner up: Brazil
2nd runner up: Venezuela
3rd runner up: Korea

Top 8 (5th to 8th place): Poland, Philippines, Mexico, and Guatemala

Top 16 (9th to 16th place): India, Vietnam, Thailand, USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belize, and US Virgin Islands

Alternates (17th to 21st place): Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Martinique, and South Africa

Good luck to all the delegates. May the best girl win!

Beautiful women from 30 different countries arrived in the coastal city of Nha Trang yesterday afternoon to compete for the Miss Earth 2007 crown, held in Vietnam for the first time.   

Nha Trang's Cam Ranh Airport was crowded with organisers, reporters, onlookers and police in the afternoon as the international beauty contestants hit the ground. 

As the convoy left the airport, they were flanked by colorful signs welcoming visitors for the Miss Earth 2007 competition. 

As Miss Peru Odilia Garcia left the airport she praised the hospitality of the Vietnamese. 

While admitting that she was tired after a long journey, Odilia said that she was in high spirits for the upcoming competition. 

After traveling the 30 km from Cam Ranh Airport to the contest venue at Vinpearl Land, Miss Australia Victoria Stewart expressed her awe of the beautiful landscape of the region. 

Asked her feeling about the local environment, another beauty commented, “Like any other countries, Vietnam needs to care for its environment. With such a beautiful beach, there's lots of work to do to keep the city and beaches clean.” 

The beauty contestants had little time to rest after arriving at Vinpearl Land before the press briefing which was scheduled at 5 p.m. 

At the press conference and welcoming ceremony, chairman of the Philippines-based Carousel Production Inc., Ramon S. Monzon expressed his gratitude to the local organisers, namely Thanh Nien Newspaper, Elite Vietnam and the Vinpearl Company. 

Monzon said he was proud that Miss Earth had grown since its inception in 2001 to become one of the world's three most prestigious pageants. 

He went on to say that the Miss Earth competition had given a platform to beautiful young women interested in making a difference in global conservation efforts. 

Candidates share their views 

At the press briefing, 30 candidates came to the stage one at a time to express their viewpoints about the pageant and its mission of promoting environmental conservation. 

Onlookers were particularly impressed by Miss Australia Victoria Stewart’s speech when she stated emphatically, “I would like to send a message: We all need to take action and take care of the environment. We must protect future generations!” 

While Canadian representative Jessica Trisko focused on starting grassroots environmental education with children around the world, the Czech delegate focused attention on cooperative efforts and consensus building among nations. 

Miss Ukraine Galyna Andreeva claimed that today more and more people approve of the global conservation effort, and added that the Miss Earth pageant woudl not only help publicize this issue, but highlight the host country Vietnam to a world audience. 

Hectic schedule 

The pageant participants have a busy schedule before the contest. 

They took part in environment protection activities this morning by planting trees and picking up rubbish around Nha Trang Beach. 

In the afternoon they interacted with underprivileged children and gave gifts to them. 

In the evening they will attend an extravagant gala dinner where admirers and audience members will have the opportunity to meet them and take their picture. 

Of the five portions of the contest, one features a local flavour. 

The beauty contestants will each be judged in a segment where they are wearing traditional Vietnamese ao dai. 

The Top 15 Best In Swimsuit finalists named:

The 86 delegates were divided into groups of 3 like last year's format. From each group, five finalists were chosen and together the top 15 Best In Swimsuit contestants were chosen. They include: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Thailand, US Virgin Islands, and Venezuela. 

• The confirmed number of delegates is 86. The only country that is yet to confirm their participation is Hong Kong and the Organization has not took off the country's name on the offical site yet. However it is highly unlikely that the nation will compete since there is only 10 days until the finals.
• Originally over 90 delegates were excepted but many nations did not compete. Full explanation below:
• Nations that withdrawed: Armenia, Aruba, Curacao, Moldova, Pakistan, and St. Martin.
• Nations that did not compete due to franchise problems: Iraq and Puerto Rico.
• Nations that did not compete due to visa problems: Scotland and Tibet
• Due to injuries and accidents, Egypt and Honduras did not compete.
• Tunisia selected their representive, Oumaima Taleb to compete but for an unknown reason she did not compete.
• The representives of China, Costa Rica, Tanzania, and Vietnam were not their national winners. China competed as the original winner was underage, Costa Rica compete because the winner was not allowed by school to compete, Tanzania's original winner was dethroned and Vietnam's original winner was overage.
• Out of the 86 delegates, only one competed at a international pageant. She is Miss Tanzania Earth, Angel Delight Kileo who participated at Miss International 2006 in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China.
• Miss USA Earth, Lisa Marie Forbes is the 3rd consecutive US Miss Earth winner to compete in Miss USA. She was previously Miss Kansas USA 2004 and represented Kansas at Miss USA 2004. Her predecessor, Amanda Helen Pennekamp was Miss South Carolina USA 2004 and also competed at Miss USA 2004! Lisa did not place but Helen placed 1st runner up to Miss USA 2004, Shandi Finnessey.

Beauty For A Cause Award: This special award was first given in 2003 to Miss Afghanistan, Vida Samadzai to acknowledge her for promoting environmental issues and caring for earth. The award hasn't been given out since then but this year the award returns.

Telecast information: The pageant will be televised live on ABS-CBN, Channel 2 on November 11, 2007 at 9:30 p.m. with replay in 35 countries in Asia and the Middle East covered by Star World on December 15th and December 16th.

Current top 16 list (in no particular order): Korea, Brazil, Venezuela, Tanzania, Ukraine, Philippines, South Africa, England, Sweden, Guatemala, China, Slovakia, USA, Mexico, Poland, and India

Bubbling up: Thailand, Belize, Ecuador, Peru, and Kazahhstan

Pageant Beauties Awards: PB's Miss Earth 2007, Viewers' Choice for Miss Earth 2007, and Miss Photogenic.

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• Suprisingly Chile has not send a delegate to this year's pageant. The reigning Miss Earth 2006, Hil Hernandez is from Chile and the organization has done quite well at Miss Earth.
• Miss China Yu Pei Pei wasn't the offical winner. The offical winner was Pu Jingjing who was replaced due to underage.
• Although elected, they did not compete in Miss Earth: Egypt (due to injury), Puerto Rico (franchise lost), and St. Martin (withdraw). 13 other elected contestants have yet to arrive in Manila but hasn't confirmed their nonparticipation.
• The nations of Armenia, Aruba, Belize, Cuba, Fiji, Iceland, Moldova, Northern Ireland, US Virgin Islands, and Zimbabwe debuts in Miss Earth.
• Cameroom, Colombia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Macau, Niue, Slovenia, Trinidad & Tobago, and Zambia return after not participating last year.
• Cayman Islands, Chile, Egypt, Greece, Haiti, Ireland, Macedonia, Puerto Rico, Russia, Samoa, and Tahiti participated last year but not this year.