Entries open for the CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

The 2024 CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition is now open for submissions. We invite all professional photographers, photography enthusiasts, content creators, and nature advocates to participate. This is an opportunity to highlight the breathtaking beauty and vital significance of our planet’s biodiversity through your photography. Let us work together to motivate action aimed at preserving the richness of our natural environment.

CIFOR-ICRAF encourages you to illustrate the crucial contributions of forests and trees in enhancing biodiversity, combating climate change, and facilitating restoration initiatives.

Eligibility – CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

Participants must be 18 years of age or older to enter the CIFOR-ICRAF photo competition. You are encouraged to utilize the photography equipment that you are most familiar with. Please note that employees of CIFOR-ICRAF are not permitted to participate.

Rules – CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

Please adhere to the following guidelines:

Entries must not contain watermarks, signatures, or captions.
Submissions that have previously received awards in other photography contests will be disqualified.
Entries featuring children or minors are not permitted.
Photographs created with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence tools are not eligible.
Images depicting the intentional harassment of wildlife will be rejected.
Photos taken in a manner that causes or has caused environmental harm by the photographer, including those captured in areas where human access is restricted by authorities or property managers, are not eligible.
Photographs taken prior to the year 2010 will not be accepted.

Prize

1. 1^st: USD 500
2. 2 ^nd: USD 400
3. 3rd USD 300

Finalists

The CIFOR-ICRAF team will email all finalists on 6 December 2024.  They will be invited to share a short video message about their photo and work. The best videos will be exhibited in our art gallery on CIFOR-ICRAF’s digital platform  (more information to be announced).

Application- CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition

1. For details Visit the Official Webpage of the CIFOR-ICRAF Photo Competition
2. Deadline is October 14, 2024