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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 July 2020. 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 July by using the appropriate form. Rules to be eligible to the contest: You must take the picture yourself. The site on the picture must be in the list of recognized natural 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 use the corresponding Wikidata-item ID (WD-Item). 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 July 1st and July 31st, 2020 (in all Canadian timezones). Take the photograph Here are some advice to augment your chances to win 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 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 You must upload your pictures on Wikimedia Commons by using the appropriate form for the contest. Your must find the Wikidata Item Number (WD-Item) corresponding to the protected area or use the direct upload link from the lists.

Lists of federal protected areas in Canada National Landmark National Capital Commission Parks National Parks of Canada National Marine Conservation Areas National Urban Park National Wildlife Areas Migratory Bird Sanctuaries Lists of provincial and territorial protected areas in Canada Choose a province or a territory: Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Prince Edward Island Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon

International winners of previous years 2013: Mountain Ai-Petri en Crimea 2014: Carpathian National Park in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine 2015: Shangrila Resorts in Central Karakoram National Park in Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan 2016: Stopića Cavern in Mount Zlatibor in the Dinaric Alps in Serbia 2017: Ogoy Island in Baikal Lake in Pribaikalsky National Park in Russia 2018: Columnar basalt after sunset at Cape Stolbchaty, Kunashir Island, Kurils Nature Reserve, Russia 2019: banded demoiselle in Gülper See Nature Reserve, Germany