Dear Wikimedia colleagues,

After four wonderful editions of Wiki Loves Earth resulting in over 300,000 new photos on Commons, we are happy to invite you to the 5th edition of Wiki Loves Earth international photo contest – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017

As a reminder, Wiki Loves Earth is focused on natural heritage (protected natural areas of all possible types) in different countries. Like Wiki Loves Monuments, the contest is organised in a federative way – meaning that it depends only on YOU and your affiliate/group if the contest will take place in your country.

Last year we had 26 participating countries organising local contests. In addition, owing to partnership with UNESCO we had a special nomination for photos of biosphere reserves all over the world, getting photos from 27 other countries, such as Argentina, Canada, Indonesia, Italy, South Africa and many others. This shows that photographers around the world have a great enthusiasm about Wiki Loves Earth – so we hope to see many of you organising a local contest in your country this year!

In order to join please add your country on the contest page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017

You can learn more on how to organise a contest in your country (it’s not that difficult!) here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Organise

If you want to participate or are interested but not sure, we would like to hear your say:

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Please tell us what kind of assistance you would like to get from the international team! Just email us at wle-team@wikimedia.org.ua to tell what you need to start in your country -

To avoid eternal dissatisfaction with jury tools, we have set up a page with an action plan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Jury_tools. Please share your thoughts about it on the talk page! -

Finally, you can subscribe to our mailing lists at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesearth ( wikilovesearth@lists.wikimedia.org) to get our updates.

We hope to see many new participants in Wiki Loves Earth this year and we are happy to help you if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury

On behalf of the Wiki Loves Earth international team