"When the government fails, the people will take the lead." So wrote the Jakarta Post on Friday in an opinion piece titled "Public initiatives revive Komodo voting". The writer was referring to Komodo National Park, one of the 28 Official Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature.
Disappointed with the…
Dead Sea artwork by Spencer Tunick
After completing his nude photo shoot at New7Wonders of Nature Finalist the Dead Sea last month, artist Spencer Tunick has published the first image of the installation. During the shoot, in which 1,200 people took off their clothes, Tunick stressed that he wanted to draw international attention to the fact…
Voting at the world’s most remote polling booth
Australians are swimming and snorkelling to vote for the New7Wonders of Nature at the world's most remote polling boot on the Great Barrier Reef. The booth was set up on the tiny sandbank island of Upolu Cay, 30 kilometres northeast of Cairns, by Tourism Australia to promote voting for the…
New7Wonders team welcomed to the Philippines
Argentina, Peru, Poland, the Philippines... the travel itinerary of the New7Wonders team spans the globe, as befits a truly worldwide campaign. The most recent stop was Puerto Princesa City in the western island of Palawan, one of 80 provinces that make up the Philippines. New7Wonders Founder and President Bernard Weber,…
From Peru to Poland, a week of voting presidents
It began last Saturday in Peru, where President Ollanta Humala voted for The Amazon, one of the 28 Official Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature, which is shared by Peru along with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Then, on Wednesday, the President of Indonesia, Susilo…
Three Polish presidents supporting Poland’s Finalist
Today in Warsaw, three presidents of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, Bronisław Komorowski and Aleksander Kwaśniewski, met the president of New7Wonders, Bernard Weber, in a display of solidarity with the Polish Finalist in the New7Wonders of Nature, the Masurian Lake District.
The occasion for the meeting was the handing over of the…
Schedule for completion of New7Wonders of Nature
Zurich/Switzerland: Voting for the New7Wonders of Nature will end on 11 November 2011 at 11:11 am GMT and the preliminary results will be announced later that day. Once the results have been verified, each of the seven winners will be confirmed at an Official Inauguration event. Here is the…
Indonesian President calls for SMS support for Komodo
The president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has asked all Indonesians to support Komodo Island, one of the 28 Official Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature.
The president made the appeal when he was officially inaugurating the new Lombok International Airport. According to The Jakarta Post, he asked the dignitaries…
Send us your photos of New7Wonders of Nature voters
We've got lots of photos of young voters, but what we'd really love to see are images of older voters. Have you got one that you'd like to share with the New7Wonders community? Send it to me, Eamonn Fitzgerald at fitzgerald@n7w.com, and I'll make sure that people all over…
Peru gets Official Finalist Certificate on the Amazon
On Sunday, New7Wonders Director Jean-Paul de la Fuente handed over the Official Finalist Certificate to the President of the Loreto Region of Peru, Yván Vasquez, at a ceremony where two boats met in the middle of the Amazon river, nearby the Loreto capital Iquitos. Peru is unique amongst the…