First place winners for costume, Wowetta Junior Wildlife Club, representing their ecotourism initiative to a cock of the rock lek.  The girls are dressed in brown, the boys in orange, they carried a sign in Makushi text explaining their costume; and the cock of the rock itself danced as they walked along.

Apoteri and Fairview clubs is arapaima and river turtle costumes.

Massara Junior Wildlife Club and their banner

There were over 282 youths at this year’s festival, making it one of the largest ever!  Here participants attend the opening ceremony.

Participants of the basket weaving competition have half an hour to strip and weave mocru to make their baskets.

Dan Allicock from Surama presides over the traditional skills competition; here he is overseeing the female archery competition.

Surama Junior Wildlife Club in the tug of war.

Odacy Davis and Damian Fernandes presented the quiz with fine panache.  Here, they are quizzing a representative from the WWF; will Jerril proceed to the next round?