Sierra Club Endangered Species Contest 2008

First Place Winners:

Kristen Andreozzi Art 10-13, Yorktown, Age 10
Caroline Foster Art 5-9, Yorktown, Age 9
Sarah Sanders Teenage Poetry, Dobbs Ferry, Age 16	Golden Lion Flight Oh golden lion tamarin with your luscious mane and swirly tail perfect for trees! Oh goldy, I have never met you, never even seen you with eyes of reality. Yet you stir my imagination. Swinging, (you probably really can, better than a swingset!) climbing, all with a graceful glee. Hop! Fly! I would touch your tail (not pull, friend, don’t worry) and we would climb-fly through the canopy! Ballet dancers with freedom instead of leotards. I would like that, golden lion tamarin, to look into your eyes and see the rainforest reflected, and for you to help me fly. Then surely we must help you live. You with your luscious mane and swirly tail! Oh!
Dan Pinto Poetry 5-9, Yorktown, Age 9
Kathryn Mirdita Poetry 10-13, Age 10, Yorktown

For Art 5-9 Nicky Driscoll, Age 10, Yorktown Julia Nolan, Age 9, Danbury, CT, Justin Ortiz, Age 9, Mount Kisco for pictures of the white tiger, penguin and panda, respectively
Gina Magliocco, Poetry 5-9, Yorktown, Age 9	Snow Leopard Little leopard come and play You live in mountains so far away You are mighty good climbers and swimmers too But hunters will catch you. You lost your food and home Now you have no place to roam With your creamy white fur— Run fast as you can Hide in the slopes away from man.
Tyler Cunnington, Poetry 5-9, Yorktown, Age 9	Bald Eagle A bald eagle up high in the wide teal sky. It’s like a shadow across the sky. A shriek like the firecrackle of a firecracker. Gliding as if it was a kite flown on a summer day. Standing out for our country!
Allison Lin, Poetry Age 10-13, Staten Island, Age 12	Marine Turtles Turtles Green, endangered Swimming, crawling, nesting Sad, loving, cold, misunderstood Turtles
Daquan Herring, Teenage Poetry, Bronx, Age 19	Grizzly Bear Grizzly bear, large and dangerous, I feel bad for you. Farmers and ranchers try to kill you, Loggers cut down your homes So you won’t have a place to rest. Grizzly bear, frustrated and sad, Cheer up—you will find a home some day. Although people are against you, Please try to find a safe place to hide, And you will be all right.