Towngas wildlife photograph contest winners chosen amongst 1,000+ entries, showcasing wealthy biodiversity in Better China

– June 11, 2024 —

The Hong Kong and China Gasoline Firm Restricted (Towngas) has introduced the winners of its “Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces: Wildlife Pictures Contest”. The competitors obtained an awesome response, with over 1,000 entries submitted. After cautious consideration by a star-studded panel of judges, the winners have been chosen. Towngas will select a few of the excellent successful pictures to create a commemorative stamp pack, which shall be launched on 15 August, “Nationwide Ecology Day”, to showcase the fantastic thing about nature to the general public. The Firm may even maintain a symposium on the identical day to advertise collaboration amongst numerous sectors in strengthening biodiversity safety and creating new vitality software options.
 
Mr Felix Lee Kin-ming, Towngas Head of Group ESG / Head of Group Company Affairs, served as one of many judges for the photograph contest. He mentioned, “Towngas deeply understands that pure ecology and human life are inextricably linked, and we should shield biodiversity. The massive variety of entries obtained, together with valuable pictures of endangered or regionally distinctive species, displays the general public’s consciousness for biodiversity matters and appreciation for the invaluable pure ecology, similar to Towngas, which is a really encouraging signal.”
 
He added, “Towngas and its subsidiary, Towngas Sensible Vitality Firm Restricted, will maintain the Biodiversity and New Energies Symposium on 15 August this 12 months. The Symposium will convene consultants from the enterprise, tutorial, and conservation sectors to interact in discussions on biodiversity safety and the event and software of latest vitality sources. This aligns with the HKSAR Authorities’s Inexperienced Transport Schemes and the nation’s advocacy for constructing an ecological civilisation.”
 
On the day of the Symposium, Towngas will problem a commemorative stamp pack that includes 12 stamps, with pictures chosen from the successful entries of the wildlife pictures contest. Contributors captured lives within the sea, on land and within the air within the Better China area by their lenses, showcasing the distinctive and wealthy biodiversity throughout the area. The commemorative stamp pack additionally evaluations Towngas’ sustained progress in carbon discount over time, demonstrating the Firm’s willpower to remodel right into a inexperienced, low-carbon vitality provider. This pack incorporates a distinctive theme and inventive design, making it a treasured collectible for each philatelists and most of the people alike.
 
Towngas attaches nice significance to environmental safety and is dedicated to constructing a sustainable future. The Firm actively explores new vitality companies, together with utilizing end-of-life tyres as an alternative choice to fossil fuels to supply inexperienced methanol for the transport business. The Firm has additionally begun offering hydrogen to prospects by its underground pipeline community in Hong Kong, appropriate for producing electrical energy with hydrogen gas cells. As well as, EcoCeres, Inc., incubated by Towngas, makes use of waste vegetable oil and animal fat to supply sustainable aviation gas, offering an environmentally pleasant vitality answer for the aviation business.
 
Towngas has already reached out to the winners of the “Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces: Wildlife Pictures Contest”. The whole listing of winners might be discovered on Towngas’ official Fb web page: https://www.facebook.com/hktowngas.
 

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Towngas and Towngas Sensible Vitality will maintain the “Biodiversity and New Energies Symposium” on 15 August, that includes business consultants, lecturers, sustainability leaders, and different distinguished friends.
 
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First Place, Grownup Group – Life within the Sea class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.
 
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First Place, Grownup Group – Life on Land class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.

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First Place, Grownup Group – Life within the Air class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.
 
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First Place, Youth Group – Life within the Sea class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.
 
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First Place, Youth Group – Life on Land class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.
 
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First Place, Youth Group – Life within the Air class, Capturing Nature’s Masterpieces photograph contest.

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Fax: 2516 7368
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Mr Tommy Wong
Company Communications and ESG Officer
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