Arctic expedition takes the climate message to school children
A WWF competition is helping Danish children and their families shape their own futures by joining efforts to tackle climate change. Climate Challenge involved 25,000 school children across Denmark who learnt how small changes in their daily lives can benefit the environment.
The competition winners, a very excited 8th grade class from Bogø school in south-east Denmark, recently returned from a once in a lifetime expedition to Greenland. The pupils, accompanied by experienced nature photographers, Morten Hilmer and Søren Koch, were isolated from modern civilisation as they travelled by dogsled across a branch of the world's largest fjord system and climbed a mountain to reach the small village of Ittoqqortoormiit. Here they witnessed first-hand the impact that climate change is having on the environment.
The trip has been widely publicised, taking the message of climate change action to an even wider audience. The children's photos from the expedition are on display in a Climate Challenge exhibition in libraries, zoos and wildlife parks across Denmark, and two television programmes about the trip will be broadcast on Danish national channel TV2 in August.
