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by Peace, 1 September 2010
14-year-old Coco Tin from Hong Kong wins this year's UNEP Painting Competition. The second place winner is 11-year-old Katherine Liu from California.
An exhibition of paintings by Coco is held at KidX, Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong until 5 September.
 The Theme of the competition was 'Biodiversity: connecting with nature'. Coco explained: "In my picture, a variety of animals are carved into blocks and on top perches a fragile glass Earth. As the evil hand made of pollution tries to take blocks and destroy the tower, the good hand comes in and stops it. By doing this, the tower of blocks is saved, and the glass Earth stays intact. This shows that if we don't act now and protect the animals, the Earth will be shattered and destroyed."
This year, there were 594,032 entries received from 95 countries. Check out all winners' paintings here.
The paintings show how much the children care about the environment and climate. Congratulations to the winners and appreciating the efforts by all the contestants!
The theme of next year's painting competition will be 'Life in the Forests' and the entries must be submitted by 15 April 2011. It is open to all children who are between the ages of six and 14 on June 5, 2011 (World Environment Day).
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