International photo contest of nature protected areas
Dear WLE community! Great news!
Wiki Loves Earth 2023 international photo contest has started!
13 countries have started their local competitions today and we have the first uploads!
You can check participating countries here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/…/Participating_countries.
And check out uploaded images so far: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/…/Category:Images_from….Good luck to each local team and each participant.
Let’s love Earth together
Dear WLE organizer!
The contest is starting very soon and this message is for those, who are still hesitating: to join or not to join?🤔
You still have time! Already 32 countries are in the active stage of the preparation and you can be the next one!
Reminder, that you need some of the criteria to start the contest:
– Team of volunteers with clear roles and timelines;
– Defining eligible natural sites (must be officially protected);
– Preparing a landing page for the local contest;
– Promotion of the contest in social networks;
– Jury to evaluate the photos (select top-15 local winners for an international contest);
– Awards for your winners.
If you have any questions, please contact the international team at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua anytime!
Take time for the preparation and make your unique contribution to the Earth’s heritage!🌳
The 11th edition of the Wiki Loves Earth 2023 photo contest is on its way!
Wiki Loves Earth is an annual international photographic competition. Participants take pictures of local natural heritage in their countries and upload them to Wikimedia Commons, a sister project of Wikipedia. For all participating countries there are separate competitions organized by local teams.
⏰When?
This year WLE will take place between 1st May and 31st July. We have a flexible approach regarding local dates, and local organizers decide when exactly to hold their contest within the international timeframe.
🌍How you can join a contest this year as an organizer or participant?
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interwle
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth
Website: https://wikilovesearth.org/
If you have any questions, please contact the international team at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua. We are always happy to answer your questions!
Take time for the preparation and stay tuned for Wiki Loves Earth 2023!🌳
Find French, Spanish and Arabic translations here: http://bit.ly/3ZZlekA.
Hey! Here is an interesting fact: 🤔
In the Picture of the Year competition on Wikimedia Commons, the second place was taken by a photo from last year’s international WLE.
☘️🐜A leaf beetle looking out from a leaf hole of the Alnus nepalensis tree. Adult leaf beetles make holes in host plant leaves while feeding. They camouflage themselves with these holes. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
Attribution: Mildeep (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Here you can check the full results👉https://commons.wikimedia.org/…/Commons…/2021/Results.
The most awaited moment of Wiki Loves Earth 2022, the largest international photo contest devoted to natural heritage has come! Finally, we are ready to reveal the international winners — 20 of the best nature photos from across 39 participating countries! 🎉
You can check out the complete list of winners 👉 here.
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We happily congratulate the winners and thank each participant for their contribution to highlighting nature heritage and illustrating Wikipedia and local teams for their hard work to make this contest happen!
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Ukraine has always been an active leader in the contest, often near the top of the list of countries by the number of local participants and photos. But unfortunately, this year, due to the full-scale Russian invasion, Wiki Loves Earth was not held in Ukraine.
Instead, Wikimedia Ukraine organized a campaign to illustrate Wikipedia and Wikidata articles with photos of Ukrainian nature uploaded to Wiki Loves Earth over the previous nine contest editions. The campaign was held from 5th July till 5th August.
Recently, organizers published the results of the campaign:
🌳13 volunteers took part in the Ukrainian Nature Illustration Month. As part of the campaign, they illustrated 718 articles on Ukrainian Wikipedia; in particular, they created 114 new articles. They also improved 510 items on Wikidata.
Participants of the competition will receive prizes and official certificates of participation from the NGO “Wikimedia Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, enjoy Ukrainian landscapes from the previous year’s competition, and stay tuned for the international results of Wiki Loves Earth this year!💚
Maybe you are organizing a contest already for a few years in your country or even for the first time, and you have something interesting or useful to tell the world. Then, here is your unique chance!
The international team would love to share exciting stories from local organizers on international blogs & social media.
You can tell us about:
– Your winners and their journey;
– Your approach or features of organizing the contest;
– Interview with a jury member, participant, or organizer;
– Anything else you consider interesting;
Contact us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua if you have a story to tell and be proud to represent WLE in your country!💚
39 countries participated in the competition this year – that’s a record number for our project’s 9-year history! Most of them have already finished a contest in their countries. Now it’s time to select local winners.
Meanwhile, let’s check the results of the contest so far:
🌳Over 3,800 people participated in the contest;
🌳Wikimedia Commons received over 45,000 new photos of nature-protected areas;
🌳Over 4,600 images already illustrate respective articles on Wikipedia;
🌳Over 2,700 people joined the contest for the first time;
🌳Top countries with the most images: Germany, Wales, Brazil.
Thanks to everyone for participating, and stay tuned to explore the winners of local competitions! After local winners are submitted, the international jury will select global winners in November.
Since 2014, dozens of countries around the world have organized annual photo contests devoted to their natural heritage within the international Wiki Loves Earth contest. In 2013 we held WLE in Ukraine for the first time, and in 2014 it went international. Overall, WLE collected 767k free photos of protected areas, with around 180k being used in the wikiprojects.
In 2021, we introduced the Human rights and Environment special nomination supporting the initiative Wiki4HumanRights which partners with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Its goal is to raise awareness of nature protection and human impacts on nature.
This contest edition united 34 countries and territories with 9 of them joining Wiki4HumanRights and receiving submissions for the new nomination. Last week our jurors had a final round evaluating the pictures, and we are delighted to present the top-5 of the Human rights and Environment special nomination on Earth Day!
These pictures taken in the Emas National Park make a powerful triptych referring to the immense challenges Brazil is facing regarding the conservation of its natural ecosystems. The country has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. The Emas National Park is a part of the Pantanal Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. It covers 1,320 square kilometers of cerrado savannah. Wildfire is a natural factor shaping tropical savannahs and has been present in the cerrado for thousands of years.
Another picture from Brazil depicts a wildfire in Serra do Gandarela National Park. It is situated within the Espinhaço Range and holds the largest intact remnant of Atlantic Forest in Minas Gerais. This is a transition region between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes which contributes to species diversity.
“On November 22, beavers built a house under the walls of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy in protest of the threat of deforestation in Polissia region, Ukraine. Beavers are convinced that cutting down forests in order to burn them at thermal power plants is an unacceptable blow to the nature of Polissya and the climate on the planet”, — tells the author of the picture about the “Don’t burn our houses!” action to protect the forests of Polissia, in particular Polissia Nature Reserve.
The author caught a mysterious view of Thousand trees location in Doirani Lake, Greece. Monica Iyer, one of the jurors, comments: “The image alone conveys a powerful representation of human interaction with nature, and of the threats posed by rising waters. The lake was in danger of drying out and now is flood-prone because of human manipulation of the water supply”.
The photo shows us a stunning view at sunset from the top of Serra de Montejunto, a protected landscape in the Montejunto-Estrela mountain range, Portugal. We can see some wind farms on neighboring small hills, and Serra da Arrábida in the distance. This mountain range, Serra da Arrábida, is a part of Arrábida Natural Park which comes into contact with the ocean
The 10th edition of the Wiki Loves Earth contest is starting in one week, and we are happy to say that we will keep the Human rights and Environment special nomination this year!
We are grateful to our amazing jurors:
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