MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ Karen Ibasco, a 26-year-old licensed physicist and university instructor from Manila, won the Miss Earth 2017 pageant to the cheers of a hometown crowd at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City last night. The crown was passed on to her by outgoing queen Katherine Espin from Ecuador. Other winners in the pageant were Australia’s Nina Robertson as Miss Earth Air 2017; Russia’s Lada Akimova, Miss Earth Fire 2017; and Colombia’s Juliana Franco, Miss Earth Water 2017. For the first segment, the Top 8 finalists were given 30 seconds to express their thoughts on a selected hashtag. We are very known in the Philippines to have a lot of biodiversity, and they’re very important because they also balances the ecosystem.

Source: Philippine Star November 04, 2017 18:56 UTC