Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff


 * This article was originally published on April 26, 2022 in Diff; it is republished here with minor modifications for style. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. – E

Since 2014, dozens of countries around the world have organized annual photo contests devoted to their natural heritage within the international Wiki Loves Earth contest. In 2013, we held WLE in Ukraine for the first time, and in 2014 it went international. Overall, WLE collected 767k free photos of protected areas, with around 180k being used in the WikiProjects.

In 2021, we introduced the Human rights and Environment special nomination supporting the initiative Wiki4HumanRights, which partners with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Its goal is to raise awareness of nature protection and human impact on nature.

The 2021 contest united 34 countries and territories, with 9 of them joining Wiki4HumanRights and receiving submissions for the new nomination. Last week our jurors had a final round evaluating the pictures, and we are delighted to present the top-5 of the Human rights and Environment special nomination!

5th place: User:Miguel G. C. Domingos

The photo shows us a stunning view at sunset from the top of Serra de Montejunto, a protected landscape in Portugal's Montejunto-Estrela mountain range. We can see some wind farms on small neighboring hills and Serra da Arrábida in the distance. This mountain range, Serra da Arrábida, is a part of Arrábida Natural Park, which comes into contact with the ocean.

The 10th edition of the Wiki Loves Earth contest runs through the end of July, and we are happy to say that we will keep the Human rights and Environment special nomination this year!

We are grateful to our amazing jurors:


 * Benjamin Schachter. Human Rights Officer and the focal point for climate change and the environment at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Prior to joining OHCHR, he worked as an attorney in the United States and as a research assistant to the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples at the University of Arizona.
 * Lukas Mezger. Attorney and climate activist from Germany. As a longtime Wikipedian, he currently serves as the chair of the Wikimedia Deutschland supervisory board.
 * Monica Iyer. Human rights attorney, advocate, and researcher with a particular interest and expertise in human rights and the environment.
 * Oleksiy Vasyliuk. Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has been working to help the occupied national parks and rescue the environmentalists from the war zone. In peacetime, he is involved in various initiatives to help protected areas and designs new national parks.