Miss Earth 2012 was the 12th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, held at the Versailles Palace in Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines, on November 24, 2012.
Olga Álava of Ecuador crowned Tereza Fajksová of the Czech Republic as her successor at the end of the event.
Results Placements Placement Contestant Miss Earth 2012 – Tereza Fajksová Miss Earth – Air 2012 – Stephany Stefanowitz Miss Earth – Water 2012 – Osmariel Villalobos Miss Earth – Fire 2012 – Camila Brant Top 8 – Nagma Shrestha – Natalia Pereverzeva – Tamerin Jardine – Siria Bojorquez Top 16 – Fabiana Granados – Nel-Linda Zublewitz – Giulia Capuani – Megumi Noda – Lourdes Paola Aguilar – Justyna Rajczyk – Sara Pender – Sara Kim
Special awards Result Contestant Darling of the Press – Stephany Stefanowitz
Challenge Events
M.E. Trivia Challenge The Trivia Challenge was held on 4 November 2012.
Result Contestant Robinsons Place Dasmariñas, Cavite 1st – Tamerin Jardine 2nd – Siria Bojorquez 3rd – Stephany Stefanowitz Robinsons Pioneer Forum Edsa, Mandaluyong 1st – Zoë Kinsella 2nd – Zanib Naveed 3rd – Prachi Mishra
Walk with M.E. The "Walk with Miss Earth Campaign" was held on the 4, 6, 7 and 8 November 2012.
Result Contestant Luneta Park, Manila 1st – Tamerin Jardine 2nd – Shauny Bult – Nagma Shrestha 3rd – Belinda Jensen – Carolyn Whitney Carter SM North EDSA, Quezon City 1st – Valerie Remillard 2nd – Madina Hamidi 3rd – Jenna Seymour SM Mall of Asia, Pasay 1st – Rocio Castellanos 2nd – Nathalia Moreira 3rd – Natalia Pereverzeva
Liter of Light Project Campaign The "Liter of Light Project Campaign" was held on 6, 8 and 10 November 2012 in San Juan. The project promotes the use of plastic bottles with water as an alternative bulb. The following candidates were hailed as "The Fastest Learners" in making the project.
Result Contestant Group 1 1st – Darla Pacheco 2nd – Gloria Ofa Blake 3rd – Lorraine Ditsebe Group 3 1st – Nel-Linda Zublewitz 2nd – Aliona Chitoroaga 3rd – Odily Alvarenga
Environmental Seminar The Environmental Seminar was held on 7 November 2012 at the Bulwagang Ninoy, Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife in Diliman, Quezon City. The following candidates were chosen with the "Best Participation":
Result Contestant 1st – Tamerin Jardine 2nd – Siria Bojorquez 3rd – Gloria Ofa Blake
At the same event, the following candidates were chosen as the "Most Sociable": Result Contestant 1st – Sarah Filush 2nd – Giulia Capuani 3rd – Phoebe Tan
M.E. Greenbag Challenge The Miss Earth Greenbag Challenge was held at the Mall of Asia in Pasay, Philippines on 8 November 2012. The activity promotes the use of reusable bags. The following groups of candidates emerged as winners:
Result Contestant 1st – Jenna Seymour – Madina Hamidi – Jessel Lauriano 2nd – Sandra Seidl – Zerina Sirbegovic – Lorraine Ditsebe 3rd – Phoebe Tan – Martina Grešová – Tamerin Jardine
Resorts Wear competition The Resorts Wear competition was held on 9, 13 and 17 November 2012.
Result Contestant Lingayen, Pangasinan (Group 1) 1st – Darla Pacheco 2nd – Tereza Fajksová 3rd – Battsetseg Turbat Pontefino Hotel (Group 2) 1st – Osmariel Villalobos 2nd – İlknur Melis Durası 3rd – Prachi Mishra Legazpi, Philippines (Group 3) 1st – Nel-Linda Zublewitz 2nd – Zoë Kinsella 3rd – Waratthaya Wongchayaporn
M.E. Eco-Ambassadress The following contestants were chosen as Eco-Ambassadors:
Result Contestant Hamilo Coast, Pico de Loro (Group 3) 1st – Nel-Linda Zublewitz 2nd – Rachael Angeth 3rd – Ievgeniia Prokopenko
Miss Earth Official Swimsuit Competition The swimsuit competition" was held on 10 and 14 November 2012. The winners were:
Result Contestant Puerto Princesa (Group 1) 1st – Darla Pacheco 2nd – Stephany Stefanowitz 3rd – Tamerin Jardine Golden Sunset Resort, Calatagan, Batangas (Group 2) 1st – Prachi Mishra 2nd – Osmariel Villalobos 3rd – Siria Bojorquez Northwoods, Bulacan (Group 3) 1st – Alexandra Fretes 2nd – Nina Fjalestad 3rd – Tatiana Bischof
Controversies Miss Earth Russia, Natalia Pereverzeva, has been heavily criticized for posing topless and for being the cover girl of the Russian Playboy's May 2011 issue (about six months before when she was crowned new Miss Earth Russia 2012). The 24 year old model and former finance specialist, then sporting a blonde hair, appeared to have her hands covering her private parts and did a double breast exposure. Pereverzeva kept mum about the topless photos when asked by media.
She stated, "I don’t think that’s a good question for Miss Earth. Real beauty should be not only natural beauty but the beauty should come from the inside". Her fellow candidates have mixed reactions regarding the issue.
However, the organizers of the Miss Earth contest came to the defense of the Russian beauty, saying Pereverzeva did not violate moral standards.
They also said Pereverzeva's Playboy pictorial was not as daring as the Playboy spread of another European contest who was not allowed to participate in the pageant.
"We cannot enforce our own cultural standards on candidates from other countries. Since Miss Earth is a global endeavor, Miss Russia was chosen through a legitimate official process in her country," Lorraine Schuck, Miss Earth executive vice president, said in a statement.
Barely after a week, Miss Russia made the international headlines once again by provoking an outrage in her motherland by calling it "a beggar" and "my poor long-suffering country, mercilessly torn to pieces by greedy, dishonest, unbelieving people". The source of the outrage came from a response to a standard question about what made her proud of her country and what she could promote about it, asked of all contestants of Miss Earth which has been stated in the pageant's official website.
Pereverzeva began by praising her country, saying it was, "a kind cow with very big eyes, funny horns and always chewing its mouth; oh, what sweet milk she gives!"
But, veering off message, she added: "My Russia is a beggar. My Russia cannot help her elderly and orphans. From it, bleeding, like from a sinking ship, engineers, doctors, teachers are fleeing, because they have nothing to live on. My Russia – it is an endless Caucasian war."
The stinging indictment, published in full on the pageant's website, caused a furore in Russia. Result Contestant Robinsons Starmills, Pampanga (Group 1) 1st – Darli Pacheco 2nd – Tamerin Jardine 3rd Taiwan – Jen-Ling Lu Enchanted Kingdom, Sta. Rosa, Laguna (Group 2) 1st – İlknur Melis Durası 2nd – Sherina van der Koelen 3rd – Nathalia Moreira Dilinger's Bar, Makati (Group 3) 1st – Deviyah Daranee 2nd – Yasmin Falzon 3rd – Odily Alvarenga
M.E. Sponsored Swimsuit Parade
The "Miss Earth 2012 Sponsored Swimsuit Parade" was held on 9 November 2012. The winners are:
Result Contestant Hamilo Coast, Pico de Loro (Group 3) 1st – Alexandra Fretes 2nd – Nina Fjalestad 3rd – Rocio Castellanos
Contestants Country/Territory Contestant Age Height Weight Hometown Group Tatiana Bischof 18 Resistencia 3 Jenna Seymour 21 Glenmore Park 2 Sandra Seidl 24 Vienna 1 Brooke Sherman 22 Freeport 2 Madina Hamidi 25 Antwerp 2 Jessel Lauriano 24 Belize City 2 Dayana Dorado 18 Beni 3 Zerina Sirbegovic 21 Srebrenik 1 Lorraine Ditsebe 19 Mochudi 1 Camila Brant 22 Patos de Minas 1 Valerie Remillard 24 Saint-Félix-de-Valois 2 Jin Rong 25 Beijing 2 Cindy Kohn-Cybulkiewicz 25 Maicao 1 Teuira Napa 19 Avarua 1 Fabiana Granados 22 Hojancha 2 Liudmyla Kuzmina 24 Kyiv 1 Tereza Fajksová 23 Ivančice 1 Belinda Jensen 22 Tølløse 1 Rocio Castellanos 25 Santiago de los Caballeros 3 Tatiana Torres 25 Cuenca 1 Yaritza Rivera 18 San Vicente 1 Zahida Begum 18 Northumberland 1 Esther Foss 21 Suva 3 Kristiina Airi 19 Helsinki 1 Nel-Linda Zublewitz 19 Bünde 3 Sherina van der Koelen 19 Pointe à Pitre 2 Sarah Filush 24 Piti 2 Stefany Miranda 23 Guatemala City 3 Odily Alvarenga 22 San Pedro Sula 3 Prachi Mishra 24 Uttar Pradesh 2 Chelsy Liven 24 Tangerang 1 Giulia Capuani 22 Milan 3 Megumi Noda 25 Shiga 1 Fiona Konchellah 23 Nairobi 3 Ajshe Babatinca 18 Pristina 2 Patricia Geagea 21 Beirut 2 Deviyah Daranee 21 Kuala Lumpur 3 Yasmin Falzon 21 Valletta 3 Lourdes Paola Aguilar 20 Yucatan 3 Aliona Chitoroaga 24 Chișinău 3 Battsetseg Turbat 21 Ulaanbaatar 1 Nagma Shrestha 21 Kathmandu 2 Shauny Bult 21 Boxtel 2 Gloria Ofa Blake 20 Auckland 1 Braxis Álvarez 25 Río San Juan 1 Ciara Walker 20 Derry 2 Nina Fjalestad 19 Asker 3 Zanib Naveed 25 Lahore 3 Ana Lorena Ibáñez 26 Penonomé 2 Alexandra Fretes 24 Asunción 3 Stephany Stefanowitz 22 Quezon City 1 Justyna Rajczyk 20 Poznań 1 Darli Pacheco 23 Toa Baja 1 Réunion Aïsha Valy 22 Entre-Deux 1 Iulia Monica Dumitrescu 20 Cluj-Napoca 3 Natalia Pereverzeva 24 Kursk 3 Sara Pender 22 Lanarkshire 2 Phoebe Tan 24 Singapore 1 Martina Grešov 26 Humenné 1 Anjeza Barbatovci 21 Ljubljana 3 Tamerin Jardine 25 Sandton 1 Sara Kim 24 Seoul 2 Rachael Angeth 21 Juba 3 Nathalia Moreira 20 Madrid 2 Chathurika Ariyawansha 25 Colombo 3 Camilla Hansson 23 Stockholm 2 Lea Sara Wittwer 21 Bern 1 Taiwan Lu Jen-Ling 23 Taipei 1 Bahati Chando 20 Dar es Salaam 2 Waratthaya Wongchayaporn 19 Songkhla 3 Amryl Nurse 22 Chickland 1 İlknur Melis Durası 22 Istanbul 2 Yevhenya Prokopenko 25 Sumy 3 Siria Bojorquez 19 El Paso 2 Carolyn Whitney Carter 22 Christiansted 2 Cynthia Kutscher 22 Salto 2 Osmariel Villalobos 24 Maracaibo 2 Đỗ Hoàng Anh 18 Ha Noi 3 Zoë Kinsella 20 Cardiff 3 Dimitra Markou 18 Bulawayo 2
Notes Debuts
Returns Last competed in 2004:
Last competed in 2007:
Last competed in 2008:
Last competed in 2009:
Last competed in 2010:
Replacements – Alba Aquino could not compete due to a dispute and was dismissed; replaced by Rocío Castellanos. – Estefanía Realpe was replaced by Tatiana Torres after the original winner was dethroned. – Feh Rosseau Nyamndi was replaced by Sherina Vanderkoeelen for undisclosed reason. – Eliane khawand was replaced by Patricia Geagea for undisclosed reason. – Uyanga Ochirbat was replaced by Battsetseg Turbat for undisclosed reason. – Joanna Guianolini was replaced by Nathalia Moreira. Taiwan – Tien-Jung Kuo was replaced by Jen-Ling Lu for undisclosed reason.
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