17 Facts About Miss Earth

Miss Earth is a major international beauty pageant that advocates for environmental awareness, conservation and social responsibility.

Winner of Miss Earth is the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme, and other environmental organizations.

Current Miss Earth is Destiny Wagner of Belize who, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was crowned virtually on November 21,2021.

In October 2001, Miss Earth adopted the slogan "Beauties For a Cause", but it wasn't until 2003 that the first "Beauty for a Cause" prize was awarded.

In 2004, the Miss Earth Foundation was created to further the pageant's causes and to work with local and international groups and non-governmental organizations that are actively involved in conservation and improvement of the environment.

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Miss Earth partnered with the Philippine Daily Inquirer's "Read-Along Storytelling Program" to educate children on taking care of the environment, awareness on renewable energy, and biodiversity.

In 2006, the Miss Earth pageant started to co-host the United Nations Environment Programme's Champions of the Earth, annual international environment awards established in 2005 by the United Nations to recognize outstanding environmental achievers and leaders at a policy level.

Miss Earth joined with Greenpeace to call for a ban on genetically-engineered food crops, promotion of organic farming and advancement of sustainable agriculture.

Miss Earth Foundation teamed up with The Climate Reality Project in 2016 for the "Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training" conducted by its founder and chairman, former US Vice President, Al Gore to create an effective platform awareness on climate change.

In 2005, a Pakistani beauty queen, Naomi Zaman, was the first Miss Pakistan World winner to participate in Miss Earth, and is the first delegate from Pakistan to compete in any major international pageant; beauty pageants are frowned upon in Pakistan.

Miss Earth advocated for the boundaries of acceptable social etiquette towards the 21st century, in a traditionally conservative Tibetan culture, where most grown women wear ankle-length dresses.

Also in 2007 pageant, Miss Earth made history when delegates from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Tibet all competed together for the first time in an international pageant in spite of political sensitivities.

In 2020, the 20th edition of Miss Earth marked the entrant of countries such as Bangladesh, Burkina Faso and Syria.

Miss Earth 2006 was scheduled to be held in Santiago, Chile on November 15,2006, but the host country failed to meet the requirements of the host committee; the pageant was moved back to the Philippines.

The coronation night venue for Miss Earth 2009 was held at the Boracay Ecovillage Resort and Convention Center in the Island of Boracay, Philippines.

The coronation night venue for Miss Earth 2010 was held at the Vinpearl Land Amphitheater at Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Miss Earth 2012 was held on November 24,2012, at the Palace in Muntinlupa, Philippines.