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To take part in the Wiki Loves Earth in South West Nigeria contest, your submission should:

• Be self-taken

  All entries must be original photographs uploaded by their photographer. Photos uploaded by other than the photographer (even with proper permission according to Wikimedia Commons rules) are not accepted.

• Be self-uploaded during the contest period

  You may submit photos you have taken in the past. What matters is that photos be uploaded during the contest period.

• Be under a free license
• Show a protected area: nature reserve/national park etc. or a close-up of species (animal or plant) photographed there

  An incomplete list of eligible sites is given in our list. Provided your photo has been taken in a protected area it is eligible. Photos of species (animals, plants etc.) taken in an eligible site also qualify if they are properly identified.

  Photos should include coordinates. If your photo does not include coordinates, please put approximate GPS coordinates into your photo's description. Photos without coordinates may be excluded from the competition.

• Be at least 2Mpx

  This is the minimum threshold. Photos of a higher resolution are encouraged.

To win a prize

• The photograph must contribute to the encyclopaedic content of Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia Commons
• A participant must have an activated e-mail address via Preferences of their account. Contributors without an activated e-mail addresss will not be eligible for a prize.

Your photograph is unlikely / ineligible to win a prize if

it is an image of

• an animal in a zoo. Zoos are not part of our protected natural heritage. Such photos are ineligible but may be useful to Wikipedia.
• an unidentified animal or plant. Images of plants and animals are most useful when identified to species level. Animals and plants identified only to genus level may be considered when these genera are not already represented in Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons for the protected area, or are superb photographs.
• a building. The building may be protected but its image is not eligible in this competition.
• is watermarked.Photos with watermarks are excluded from the South West Nigerian competition.
• part of a series of near identical photos. The organisers will randomly choose just one of such a series to participate in the competition. Please upload the best of your series to give yourself a better chance of winning.