FYI,
Wikimedia Ukraine is initiating a
new photo contest – “Wiki Loves Earth”, its goal being collecting
pictures of Ukraine Natural Heritage sites and Landscape and Ornamental
Gardening objects for illustrating articles in the worldwide free
Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Everybody can take part in the competition. A registration on
Wikimedia Commons (one of many Wikipedia sister projects) is required.
You are to find in the list of natural heritage objects the ones you
know of, take a picture of them yourself (it could be done anytime,
previously or starting now) and upload them to Commons (during April 15 –
May 15, 2013). The authors of the best pictures will be awarded with
prizes. The results announcement and the awarding ceremony will be held
in Kyiv, on June 5, 2013, on the World Environment Day.
The Organizational Committee has already started preparation work on
the competition list, and almost 8 000 of entries are to be included
there. Nature reserves, landscape parks, protected areas, natural
heritage sites, botanical (dendrological), zoological gardens and parks,
and ornamenting gardening objects will be in the list.
Yuri Perohanych, Wikimedia Ukraine Executive Director, said that this
photo contest will draw the society’s attention to the existing
problems of Ukraine natural heritage protection, and the contest itself
is to show the perspectives of green/eco tourism in Ukraine.
As Yevhen Buket, the contest coordinator, pointed out, the idea to
initiate such a competition has arisen after conducting a successful
international photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine this
September. The goal of the contest was collecting pictures of cultural
heritage monuments of Ukraine.
Wikimedia Ukraine invited Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources
of Ukraine, environmental organizations, as well as donors and sponsors,
to help with the organization of the competition and contribute to the
contest prize fund.
More information in Ukrainian:
http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/ÂËÇ---------
Best regards,
Yevhen Buket, WM UA