Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Uganda

Wiki Loves Earth is an international photographic competition to promote natural heritage sites around the world through Wikimedia projects mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

In Uganda, the Wikimedia Community Usergroup is participating for the fifth time and invites all interested volunteers to join this year's competition! There are a lot of natural heritage sites in Uganda; the goal of Wiki Loves Earth is to encourage people to take pictures of those natural sites and to put them under a free license so that others may access them through the Internet. The local competition will run from 15 May 2024 to 15 July 2024. (when local winners will be submitted to the international competition).

Local entries will be accepted starting on 15 May 2024 until 15 July 2024. You may upload as many pictures as you want of natural sites that you have visited. The pictures don't have to be taken in May but need to be uploaded during the competition time frame to be considered.

• If you have pictures of natural sites stored on your computer since your last trip, this is a great opportunity to give them a second life in this year's Wiki Loves Earth contest.
• The contest jury will begin selecting national winners on 30 July 2024 and will choose the best 10 pictures of the natural sites in Uganda, which will be considered in the international competition for a prize.
• Besides winning prizes, your pictures could be used (by yourself or anyone else) on any Wikimedia project to contribute to the preservation of Uganda's natural heritage.

Timeline

Start date: 15th May 2024	Upload period: 27 May 2024	End date: 15th July 2024

Selecting national winners : 25th July - 30 July 2024 Contacting national winners : 1 - 10 August 2024 Announcing and award of prizes : 15 - 20 2024 Submitting local winners to the international competition 30 August 2024 Meta/landing page updates and evaluation: 31 August 2024

Team members

The competition will be run by volunteers from the Wikimedia Community Usergroup in Uganda.

• Sandra Aceng - Project lead and Financials.
• Shafik- Project Coordination
• Geoffrey Kateregga - Jury Coordinator
• Ritah Nagujja -Communications and Marketing Coordinator
• Alvin Ategyeka-Event Management

The above list will be updated as the competition progresses.

Jury members (TBA)

International prizes

• See details on the Wiki Loves earth 2024 page

Wiki Loves Earth 2024 Virtual Launch

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How to participate

		Step 1: Find protected areas, natural monuments, parks, or protected areas to photograph near you!
		Step 2: Take as many beautiful pictures as possible, try different angles. Even if the photo does not win a prize, it can help improve a selected Wikimedia project!
		Step 3: Make a selection of the best images, describe, name, and add other relevant details.
		Step 4: Log in to Wikimedia Commons. If you don't have an account yet Create one - and activate your email address.
		Step 5 : Publish (Upload) your photos

Upload your photos

Where are the natural sites?

Regions of Uganda

Legend

National Parks Bwindi Impenetrable Kibale National Park Kidepo Valley National Park Lake Mburo National Park Mgahinga Gorilla Nationals Park Mount Elgon National Park Murchison Falls Queen Elizabeth Rwenzori Mountains National Park Semuliki National Park

State Reserves Ajai Wildlife Reserve Bokora Corridor Wildlife Reserve Kabwoya Wildlife Reserve Katonga Wildlife Reserve Kigezi Wildlife Reserve Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve

State Nature Sanctuaries Karenga Community Wildlife Management Area Entebbe Wildlife Sanctuary Ngama Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary Otze Forest Wildlife Sanctuary Ziwa Rhino Rhino Sanctuary	State Nature Sanctuaries Lake Opeta Lake Bisina Lutembe Bay Mabamba Bay Murchison Falls
Contact us through any of the following channels; Discussion page E-mail: info@wikimediauganda.org Twitter Facebook	Useful links List of protected areas in Uganda on Wikipedia Ministry of Tourism in Uganda Uganda Wildlife Authority

Rules and selection criteria

• Every submission should be:
  • Self-taken and self-uploaded;
  • Uploaded between 15 May 2024 - 15 July 2024.
  • Freely licensed (This can be CC BY-SA 4.0 or any other free license, including CC0).
  • An identifiable nature monument or reserve.
  • Uploaded through the national campaign, automatically added with uploading via this link.
• Participants can participate in the contest with multiple photos.
• To be eligible to win a prize, participants in the contest must provide a way to contact them.
  • It is recommended that the participant has an activated e-mail address in his/her preferences and has the receiving of e-mails enabled.
  • If no way of contact is provided or no reaction is given, the photo(s) will stay part of the contest, but the uploader may not win a prize.
• Additional International contest rules are published here.

The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2023

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  Alpha male chimpanzee at Kibale forest National Park
  Photograph: Giles Laurent
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  Golden Gaze
  Photograph: Vanmulondo
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  Solitary Rock
  Photograph: Dixon099
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  Olive-bellied Sunbird in flight at Kibale forest National Park
  Photograph: Giles Laurent
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  Uganda kobs mating at Queen Elizabeth National Park
  Photograph: Giles Laurent
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  Red-chested cuckoo at Kibale forest National Park
  Photograph: Giles Laurent
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  Elephant family at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent
  Photograph: Giles Laurent
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  The Sempaya Hot Springs
  Photograph: Dixon099
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  Aruu Falls
  Photograph: Dixon099
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  Nyakasura falls
  Photograph: Rose mbabazi

The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2022

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  A group of Kob ewes moving through the savannah grassland at Murchison Falls National Park
  Photograph: User:Timothy Akolamazima
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  Kyaninga Crater Lake as seen from above
  Photograph: [[User: Dixon099]]
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  stony raised hill seen from Fort Patiko grounds
  Photograph: User:Jameswasswaphoto
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  Elephants near Kazinga Channel
  Photograph: User:Yakov Fedorov
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  Three-horned Chameleon
  Photograph: User:Gabriels108
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  Birds in Murchison Falls National Park
  Photograph: User:Yakov Fedorov
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  Hippo in Kazinga Channel
  Photograph: User:Yakov Fedorov
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  An African leopard in Queen Elizabeth National park in Western Uganda
  Photograph: User:Gabriels108
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  Rothschild's giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) keeping company of each other as they move through the wilderness of Murchison Falls National Park
  Photograph: User:Timothy Akolamazima
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  Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Bwindi Impenetrable
  Photograph: User:Thomas Fuhrmann

The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2021

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  A clear view of the female hot springs
  Photograph: Fiktube
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  The reason why Uganda is called the Pearl Of Africa
  Photograph: Matovu Trevor
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  Sustainable fish farming on Lake Victoria
  Photograph: Mohsen Taha
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  The footprint of what the locals refer to be the foot of Kigere who is believed to have been escaping an eruption of the volcano
  Photograph: Fiktube
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  The nyakasura falls in fortportal district
  Photograph: Alvinategyeka
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  Beautiful view of Murchison falls
  Photograph: Jozef020
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  Plantain eaters
  Photograph: SharonDawn
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  Mama and baby Monkeys
  Photograph: SharonDawn
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  The Amabere ga nyinamwiru as they are known locally are stalacites and stalagmites in the nyakasura falls
  Photograph: Alvinategyeka
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  Thick fog over a part of Nyarurambi county in Rubanda district
  Photograph: Estherkmugarura

The top 10 Images in Uganda in 2020

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  Murchison Falls, top of the falls. Impressive: the water thunders down with great force.
  Photograph: Susanne Elsig-Lohmann
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  Two young giraffes in Murchison Falls National Park
  Photograph: Susanne Elsig-Lohmann
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  These rocks at fort Partiko, built in 1872 were used as prisons for captured slaves.
  Photograph: Jim Joel
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  Children on a foot path heading to one of the villages in Kidepo Valley National Park
  Photograph: Jim Joel
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  The rocks surrounding the fort were used for long jump exercises by soldiers under Sir Samuel Baker's army at Baker's fort, 1872 Uganda.
  Photograph: Jim Joel
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  Kyambura Gorge also known as the valley of apes, is a forest in queen Elizabeth national park
  Photograph: Jim Joel
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  This rock was used as a watch tower to look out for enemies and arriving trade caravans at fort partiko baker's fort in 1872, Uganda.
  Photograph: Jim Joel
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  The largest of the primates of Kibale National Park in western Uganda. Here wildlife lovers trail habituated families of chimpanzees as they feed on fig fruit, their major food suppliers.
  Photograph: Byekwaso Blasio
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  Kingfisher live in the wooded savannas of Africa where it feeds primarily on insects. But this particular one was caught on film carrying a reptile (skink) to its nest to feed its young one. It was also observed carrying toads and frogs to the nest.
  Photograph: Byekwaso Blasio
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  Flat lash plains of semiliki national park
  Photograph: Jim Joel

• International Winners

The 2019 winning photos in Uganda

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  Mountain gorilla - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  Photograph: Thomas Fuhrmann
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  Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) - Lake Bunyonyi
  Photograph: Thomas Fuhrmann
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  Rainbow over Murchison falls.
  Photograph: Tsaubah
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  A view of Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale district on the shores.
  Photograph: Allan Mbabani
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  Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus) - Lake Bunyonyi.
  Photograph: Thomas Fuhrmann
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  Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) - - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
  Photograph: Thomas Fuhrmann
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  Sipi Falls, the picturesque waterfalls Eastern Uganda.
  Photograph: Muhammad Lubogo
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  Giraffes in Uganda.
  Photograph: Tsaubah
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  Murchison falls.
  Photograph: Tsaubah
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  Nile river near lake Victoria.
  Photograph: Thomas Fuhrmann

• International Winners

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