Application Deadline: 14 October 2024
LOCATION: Multiple Regions
Calling all professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, content creators, and nature lovers. Gear up to showcase the stunning beauty and critical importance of our planet’s biodiversity through the lens of your camera. Let’s inspire action to protect the richness of our natural world.
You are invited you to capture the essential role of forests and trees in promoting biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and driving restoration efforts.
ELIGIBILITY:
The CIFOR-ICRAF photo competition welcomes participants aged 18 or older. You are encouraged to use the photography equipment with which you are most comfortable. Employees of CIFOR-ICRAF are not eligible to enter.
By submitting photos to the competition, the contributor agrees to a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial share-alike license (BY-NC-SA).
By uploading the image, the contributor ensures that the image was taken legally and that they have the right to portray all people or other information contained in the image.
You may submit multiple entries with maximum 3 photos; however, you can only have one ultimate entry in the final round
The uploaded file must include the photo’s title, name, email address, social media handles (if applicable), and a caption stating the following: the subject and location, and a short description of the story behind the picture.
You must have the full copyright to the submitted photos. Therefore, by submitting your entries, you will be presumed to have agreed to accept the contest rules and the terms and conditions.
Please note the following rules:
Entries should not include watermarks, signatures, or captions.
Entries that have previously won other photography competitions will be automatically disqualified.
Submissions featuring children or minors are not eligible.
Entries generated using generative artificial intelligence tools or with their assistance are ineligible.
Images portraying the willful harassment of wildlife will not be accepted.
Photos taken in ways that cause or have caused environmental damage by the photographer, including capturing images in areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or property managers, are not eligible.
Photos taken before the year 2010 will not be eligible.
BENEFIT:
1st: USD 500
2 nd: USD 400
People’s choice award: USD 300
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