STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Commemorating World Environment Day, UNDP Bangladesh and The Daily Star jointly awarded the winners of “Save Green & Be Seen” mobile photography contest at The Daily Star Centre yesterday.

The campaign invited people to capture eco-friendly activities around them and to showcase them to the rest of the world. The call for submission began on May 23, and ended on June 1.

Within the span of a week, the campaign received nearly 900 entries, out of which 30 were displayed during an exhibition at The Daily Star Centre.

The best eight exhibited photographs were awarded. The winners are Abdullah Al Junaid, Md Mehedi Hasan Patowary, Saqeeb Niloy, Sohel Rana, Tariqul Islam, Maisha Hoque, Mahmuda Hoque and Nasrifa Tun Naim.

The winning pictures featured various attempts towards conserving nature. The photographs featured unique concepts of plantation, cleanliness drives in the port city, reusing plastic bottles, and the specks of green present with a grey city landscape.

The event was attended Sudipto Mukherjee, country director, UNDP Bangladesh, and Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher, The Daily Star.