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«Wiki Loves Earth» -

an international photo contest of natural heritage

Thank you for your attention!

Winners

The jury has selected 3 winners.

There were:

Experience

International team «Wiki Loves Earth»

All photos are under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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For the first time the competition was held in 2013 in Ukraine.

It was started on a national scale and was positively received by both participants and partners.

Aims of the competition

This year plans

In 2014 the project «Wiki Loves Earth» becomes international. Australia, Brazil, Armenia, Greece, Iraq, Canada, Macedonia, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland, Austria, Catalonia and Andorra, Estonia, the Netherlands and Germany already have started preparations.

Photo contest is being held from May, 1 to May, 31 2014.

• to collect and publish pictures of natural heritage of Ukraine and other countries in order to illustrate articles on Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects

• to promote environmental protection

Participants

364 photographers from all over Ukraine

Contest was initiated and held by NGO «Wikimedia Ukraine».

To participate you need to take a photo of the natural heritage sites, landscapes and ornamental gardens from the list and apload them for a specified period of time to Wikimedia Commons.

1st place — Katya Krasnytska, Dawn on Ai-Petri Mountain, Crimea

International team of «Wiki Loves Earth» is working on involving partners.

We are negotiating with all national and international environmental organizations, travel agencies, clubs and communities.

We attract well-known journalists, photographers, environmentalists and naturalists to the competition as the contest participants or members of the jury.

Photos

Welcome to cooperate!

During the last year contest 11,706 photos of more than 1100 objects had been collected.

The largest number of photos came from Kyiv (3699 photo), Crimea (1967 photo), Vinnitsa (520), Lviv (576) regions.

The least - from Kirovohrad (31), Luhansk (47), Mykolaiv (34) and Chernivtsi (21) regions.

Mail:

wle@wikimedia.in.ua

КонтрдCoordinator contactsинатора:

5065588@gmail.com

теtel.: (096) 506-55-88

ОOfficial siteкту:

http://wikilovesearth.org

FB:

https://www.facebook.com/interwle

ВКVK:

http://vk.com/wleukraine

Instagram:

wikilovesearth

Stages of the competition

2nd place — Serhiy Krynytsia (Haidamac), Dniester Canyon national nature park, Zalischyky, Ternopil Oblast

The competition is held at national and international stages.

The local winners will be appointed during June, 2014.

Then the selected photos will be examined by the international jury. The final results of the competition will be announced on June 25 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Nominations and awards

Among the uploaded photos the local jury define:

• 10 best photos of the contest

• The best one in each region

Among the awards are tablets, navigators, eBooks etc.

The International jury will define 10 best photos out of all submitted by each participating country.

3rd place — Balkhovitin, Upper Cretaceous rock exposure (geological natural monument), Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast