Miss Ecuador

Maria Magdalena Stahl

Profession:
TV Anchor

Environmental Concern:
I believe that showing the reality and being able to actually touch peoples hearts and feelings, letting them realize how we are responsible that our earth is being destroyed because of our ignorance or thoughtless care, is where I would start to promote the protection of mother nature. For example, one way and the biggest problem we are facing today is the over heat of the earth. Just recently, the volcano “Tungurahua:, located in my country, exploded, leaving an immense damage, such as people with no homes where to live, animals died and the lost of thousands acres of crops. Hurricanes that take away houses, leaving most of the victims traumatized, with no illusions and to be strong to work harder that never to recover from a nightmare they never expected happen. Now we might not feel the destruction we are causing, although HE, from way up, is giving us signals to react and do something to change how we live, but definitely, our future generations will suffer much more and when I think of this, it makes me sad that our loved ones will have to fight against what we couldn’t take care of.

What makes you proud of your country:
Ecuador Is a small country that has a world of magical places to visit, which makes it a final destination of tourism unable to forget, because once to get to know it, you most definitely will return back again but probably to stay and live. Having an immense diversity of sites, form the plateaus, decorated by beautiful mountains, also known to be upon the biggest on the planet, beaches, where you can walk and feel the white sand, being next to sea lions where they rest and actually swim with whales during summer time, the orient, known for it’s humid forests, where you can come upon snakes and monkeys, even multiple colored butterflies of different types and sizes; you can travel these places in just hours and feel like if you where in a different country every time you arrive. Far away all of these spectacular places you could visit, Ecuador is identified for its particular climate, having an indescribable and magnificent weather during the year. We can have all types of fruits, vegetables and farms to grow small and big animals. Being a country blessed by mother nature, an Ecuadorian, is noble and hard working person that likes to take a good positive advantage of our rich land to cultivate and produced the best nutrients, of which we have all kinds of variety. This is Ecuador, a small box filled with gold, that in seconds, you could find an invaluable jewel.