July 26, 2010 is the final stage for the 6 finalists to be WWF Tiger Ambassador and represent Indonesia in Youth Tiger Summit, Vladivostok, Russia on November 18-25, 2010. The 6 finalists presented their creative ideas before the board of judges consisting Prof. Dr. Hadi Alikodra (from Bogor Agriculture Institute), Nazir Foead (Director of GCCE Program, WWF-Indonesia), Eunice Kim (Managing Editor – High End Teen Magazine), and Desmarita Murni (Communication Coordinator of Forest Species and Freshwater Program, WWF-Indonesia).

From the 6th finalists, the board of judges has decided to choose Amalia Anindia (20 years old) and Lely Puspitasari (20 years old) as WWF Tiger Ambassadors and they will represent Indonesia at Youth Tiger Summit 2010, Vladivostok, Russia Far East.

Amalia Anindia and Lely Puspitasari are chosen based on their high creativities and ideas, public speaking skills, organizational and networking skills, fluent in English and good substantial knowledge.

WWF-Indonesia CONGRATS both winners and read their short biographies below:

Lely Puspitasari was born in Ponorogo, East Java, on August 20, 1990. She participated in several English speech competitions such as speech competition held by University of Malang. She also joined AFS Intercultural Program in Malang, East Java. Currently, Lely is registered as undergraduate student at Forestry Faculty of Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, majoring in forestry product technology. Although forestry science is her focus of study, Lely also has skills to produce video and is interested with online media development. Lely hopes that becoming WWF Tiger Ambassador can open many opportunities for her adding up her knowledge and networks to campaigning about Sumatran tiger conservation amongst youngsters– as she added, “in creative and fun ways, of course!” In her final presentation, she submitted two videos she made herself titled: "Save Tiger" and "Tiger Paper Craft"

 

 

Amalia Anindia was born in Jakarta on March 7th, 1990. Currently, Amalia is a student of Forestry Faculty of Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta, majoring in Forest Resource Conservation. Since her teenage, she’s been actively participated in national and international youth conferences and now she joins a forestry student association in her college. She was invited to be an observer in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) COP 15 at Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. Her public speaking skill and endless admiration on biodiversity and environment become Amalia’s main asset as WWF Tiger Ambassador to start campaigning about Sumatran tiger and its habitat conservation with WWF-Indonesia. Amalia also submitted a short video in her final presentation titled: Lost of The Tigers

 

 

 

(WWF/D.Ekarini)