NEW YORK / SANTIAGO / BOGOTA (January 15, 2025) – Audubon right now introduced that the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards is increasing to incorporate submissions from Chile and Colombia along with the USA and Canada. The competition’s expanded scope and set of latest prizes will amplify Audubon’s unified hemispheric method to chook conservation and spotlight how birds deliver individuals collectively throughout geographies and ecosystems. Now in its sixteenth 12 months, the competition is open to images and video submissions till March 5, 2025 at 12 p.m. (midday) U.S. Jap Time (12 p.m. in Colombia and a couple of p.m. in Chile).
Chile and Colombia have a few of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes and seascapes, and plenty of weak birds migrate between Canada and the U.S. and these vibrant international locations. Audubon protects these birds from the twin crises of local weather change and biodiversity loss by engaged on coordinated efforts throughout a number of international locations and areas that guarantee their survival year-round. This 12 months’s Audubon Pictures Awards guarantees to help tell this story with extra prizes specializing in migratory species, habitats, and conservation—all whereas persevering with to showcase the gorgeous imagery that bird-lovers have come to anticipate.
Judges will award 9 prizes to residents of Chile and Colombia and eight prizes to residents of the U.S. and Canada. This contains the brand new Birds with out Borders Prize, depicting birds with migratory paths that cross worldwide boundaries, and Conservation Prize, illustrating conservation challenges that birds face—for instance, how local weather change is affecting their sources and habitat—or how taking motion to deal with these challenges can enhance situations and assist them thrive. Different prizes embrace the Grand Prize, Birds in Landscapes Prize, Youth Prize, Vegetation for Birds Prize, Feminine Hen Prize, and Video Prize.
Winners shall be featured within the Fall 2025 difficulty of Audubon journal. Choose images and movies can even be featured in digital galleries promoted on Audubon’s web site and social channels all year long. For inspiration, try the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards winners.
The competition is open to all authorized residents of Colombia, Chile, the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec) who’re 13 years of age or older as of the date of the submission. Audubon encourages moral chook images and videography. Photographs and movies that don’t adhere to Audubon’s Guide to Ethical Bird Photography and Videography shall be disqualified.
Entry is free for residents of Chile and Colombia and $15 per picture or video for people within the U.S. and Canada. No cost is required for submissions to the Youth division for entrants who’re 13 to 17 years of age.
Go to the Chile and Colombia and U.S. and Canada contest pages for official guidelines, particulars on prizes and judges, and continuously requested questions.
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The Nationwide Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group that protects birds and the locations they want right now and tomorrow. We work all through the Americas in the direction of a future the place birds thrive as a result of Audubon is a strong, numerous, and ever-growing drive for conservation. Audubon has greater than 700 workers working throughout the hemisphere and greater than 1.5 million energetic supporters. North America has misplaced three billion birds since 1970, and greater than 500 chook species are susceptible to extinction throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning methods concerning the well being of the environment, and so they inform us that birds – and our planet – are in disaster. Collectively as one Audubon, we’re working to change the course of local weather change and habitat loss, resulting in more healthy chook populations and reversing present traits in biodiversity loss. We do that by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with native communities, influencing public and company coverage, and constructing neighborhood. Be taught extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
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