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You can participate to Wiki Loves Earth by taking pictures of recognized natural areas according to the lists and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons during the month of June 2025. For the picture to be eligible, you can take it anytime, as long as you have taken it yourself and you upload it to Commons in June by using the appropriate form.
Contest Rules
- You must take the picture yourself.
- The site depicted in the picture must be on the list of recognized protected areas of Canada.
- You must accept to put your picture under the license CC-BY-SA 4.0 (details).
- You must upload it to Wikimedia Commons by using the appropriate form for the contest and include the corresponding Wikidata Item ID (also known as a QID or Q-number).
Prizes
- First place: $100 CAD giftcard to a local camera supply store
- Second place: $75 CAD giftcard to a local camera supply store
- Third place: $50 CAD giftcard to a local camera supply store
How to participate
- Decide what you want to photograph.
- To take a photograph of a natural area and be eligible for the Wiki Loves Earth contest, you must first confirm that the area on the photograph is a recognized natural area of Canada. See the lists (on the right side). Different types of natural areas are eligible such as national parks, provincial parks, etc. If you already have photographs of a recognized natural area, it is not important when you took them, it is only important that you upload them between June 1st and June 30th, 2025 (in all Canadian timezones).
- Take the photograph.
- Here is some advice to improve your chances of winning the contest:
- Adjust your camera to the highest resolution. Take several photographs of the natural site. Later choose the best pictures or upload them all if they are all good.
- Remember what natural areas that you photographed because you will be required to identify them at the moment of uploading the pictures.
- Make sure that the photographs are pertinent to represent the natural areas. For example, a photograph of cars in the parking lot of a national park does not represent the natural park, but photographs of landscapes, wildlife, lakes, mountains, etc are all pertinent.
- Make sure to respect the rules of the park where you are.
- Upload your pictures
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- You must upload your pictures on Wikimedia Commons by using the appropriate form for the contest.
- You must include the Wikidata Item Number (also known as a QID or Q-number) corresponding to the protected area or use the direct upload link from the lists.
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Lists of federal protected areas in Canada
Lists of provincial and territorial protected areas in Canada
Choose a province or a territory:
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