Miss Earth

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Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant founded in the year 2001 by Carousel Productions Inc. of the Philippines. Its organizer created the pageant after losing the rights to continue producing for the Miss Asia-Pacific pageant. It became the third largest beauty pageant in the world since its conception five years ago.

The delegates and winners give meaning and relevance to this beauty competition by promoting worthwhile environmental causes and getting actively involved in caring for and the preservation of Mother Earth. In addition to its environmental objectives, the winner of Miss Earth is involved with international environmental projects. During pageant month (2005), Carousel brings the Miss Earth delegates to selected tourism destinations, like Fort Ilocandia, Intramuros, Bohol, and Boracay in the Philippines to showcase and promote the same to the pageant's international viewers. The delegates also take part in treeplanting ceremonies, environmental and cultural immersion programs, sponsor visits and tours, and even a Survivor-like competition.

The court of runner ups are bestowed titles named after the other natural elements: Miss Earth Fire (equivalent to third runner-up), Miss Earth Water (second runner-up), and Miss Earth Air (first runner-up).

In the last 5 years, the pageant was held in October or November, in Manila, Philippines and televised nationwide via ABS CBN with international telecasts on STAR TV and The Filipino Channel.

Miss Earth gained worldwide press in 2003 after Vida Samadzai, an Afghan woman now residing in the United States, competed in a red bikini. Samadzai was the first Afghan woman to compete in an international beauty pageant in almost three decades, but the fact that she wore a bikini caused an uproar in her Islamic native country.

The 2005 pageant was held on October 23, drawing the participation of 80 countries from all over the world. The 2005 pageant was supposed to mark the end of the Philippines' hosting of the pageant. They have hosted the pageant for five years since its inception in 2001.

Miss Earth 2006 was scheduled to be held in Santiago, Chile on November 15, but organizational and funding problems forced moving the pageant back to the Philippines, where it was held on November 26. Interestingly, the winner was Miss Chile, Hil Hernández from Chiloé Island.

1 Titleholders
- 1.1 Winning years for each country
- 1.2 Best performances by continental regions
2 Hosts, Invited Artists, & Location
3 Trivia
- 3.1 Awards
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Titleholders

Year	Miss Earth	Country	Venue
2001	Catharina Svensson	Denmark	Quezon City, Philippines
2002	Džejla Glavović (Dethroned)	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Pasay City, Philippines
2002	Winnie Adah Omwakwe	Kenya	Pasay City, Philippines
2003	Dania Prince Méndez	Honduras	Quezon City, Philippines
2004	Priscilla Meirelles de Almeida	Brazil	Quezon City, Philippines
2005	Alexandra Braun Waldeck	Venezuela	Quezon City, Philippines
2006	Hil Yesenia Hernández Escobar	Chile	Manila, Philippines

[edit] Winning years for each country

Map of Miss Earth-winning countries as of 2006: those highlighted in red.

Country	Title(s)	Winning year(s)
Brazil	1	2004
Chile	1	2006
Denmark	1	2001
Honduras	1	2003
Kenya	1	2002
Venezuela	1	2005

[edit] Best performances by continental regions

As of 2006

REGION	Best performance
South America	3 titles won by Brazil (1), Chile (1) and Venezuela (1)
Europe	2 titles won by Denmark (1) and Bosnia & Herzegovina* (1)
Africa	1 title(s) won by Kenya (1)
Central America & the Caribbean	1 title(s) won by Honduras (1)
Asia	0 title(s)
North America	0 title(s)
Oceania	0 title(s)

* In 2002, Bosnia & Herzegovina's Džejla Glavović won the Miss Earth crown in the Philippines. However, she was dethroned a few months later by the Miss Earth Organization for not fulfilling the duties stipulated in her contract. First runner-up, Kenya's Winnie Adah Omwakwe continued the responsibilities as Miss Earth 2002.

[edit] Hosts, Invited Artists, & Location

Year	Host(s)	Commentators	Invited Artist(s)	Venue
2001	Jamie Garchitorena	Asha Gill & Emma Suwanalat	?	UP Theater
2002	Marc Nelson	Pia Guanio, Bianca Araneta	Francis Magalona (?) ,RJ Rosales	Francisco Balagtas Theatre
2003	Ariel Ureta	Natalie Tarin & Phoemela Baranda	?	UP Theater
2004	Marc Nelson & Sarah Meier	-	Piolo Pascual	UP Theater
2005	Ariel Ureta & Amanda Griffin	Piolo Pascual	?	UP Theater
2006	Ariel Ureta, with Priscilla Meirelles	Chelsey Kaye Caldwell	Christian Bautista	National Museum Grounds in Rizal Park

[edit] Trivia

Denmark won its first major beauty title in history when Catharina Svensson won Miss Earth in 2001.
Dzejla Glavovic is the first woman from Bosnia & Herzegovina to win a major beauty title for her country. She is also the first Miss Earth to be dethroned, for failing to fulfill her duties.
Kenya also claimed its first major title when Winnie Adah Omwakwe assumed the position of Miss Earth 2002.
Miss Earth 2003, Dania Prince Mendez from Honduras competed in Miss Universe 1998. She was unplaced.
By winning Miss Earth in 2004, Priscilla Meirelles from Brazil made her country as the first country to have had a winner in all 4 grand slam beauty pageant. The following year, Alexandra Braun did the same feat for her country Venezuela.
Miss Earth 2004 Priscilla Meirelles was the first Miss Earth Winner to host the Miss Earth Competition in 2006.
As of Miss Earth 2006, Philippine delegates to the pageant have made it to the semifinals for the sixth consecutive year.

[edit] Awards

Venezuela has the most Best in Swimsuit awards: (two, Alexandra Braun 2005 and Marianne Puglia 2006).

Korea has the most Best National Costume awards (two, Jin-Ah Lee 2002 and Hie Mi Yoo 2005).

Bosnia & Herzegovina has the most Miss Talent awards: (two, Džejla Glavović 2002 and Mirela Bulbulija 2004).

No Miss Friendship has ever gone on to win or place (in the semifinals) Miss Earth.

Only one Miss Earth winner was awarded Miss Talent: Džejla Glavović (Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2002).

Only one Miss Earth winner was awarded Miss Photogenic: Priscilla Meirelles (Brazil, 2004).

[edit] See also

Miss Earth 2006
Miss Asia Pacific International
Miss Globe International
Miss Iraq 2007 might have a chance to compete at Miss Earth, we own the license since 2001 and there was an attempt in 2006.