Photos

How to join the Photo Gallery

Have you taken photographs of your World Environment Day event? Would you like to share these photographs with other New Zealanders and also have the best one chosen for display on this website? Then read on…

Just follow these 6 easy steps:

  1. Choose your best event photos (maximum of 20).
  2. Make sure they are saved as jpgs, 72dpi (web resolution), and with a name that includes your event name and a unique descriptive tag.
  3. Tell us whether you are okay with your photos being freely shared and reused or not through the Flickr photo-sharing website. Please read copyright information in the box below. (see box below*).
  4. Email them to WEDphotos@mfe.govt.nz along with a short caption (20 words maximum) for each photo (number the captions and the photos so they can be matched up).
  5. Wait 1 day (to give us time to upload).
  6. We will select the best photos from the events to display on our mini gallery on this page.

If you already have World Environment Day photos shared on Flickr, join up to the World Environment Day group
and add your photos to the pool.

* About copyright – Important Please read

Flickr allows photos to be tagged with various levels of “copyright” one of which is called Creative Commons. If you don’t wish your photos to be published on Flickr under an ‘Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0’ licence then please indicate this to us when you are emailing them by saying at the beginning of your email message “No Creative Commons”.

If you don’t include these words then we will assume that you are okay to have your photos published under an ‘Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0’ licence, including by the Ministry for the Environment for promoting World Environment Day during and after the event.

Please only send us photos that you have taken yourself and have the copyright to. Respect trhe copyright of others. By sending us a photo, you agree that the copyright in the photo belongs to you. By agreeing to have your photos shared and reused through Flickr, you also agree to comply with Flickr’s community guidelines regarding photo sharing.

Best Photos – World Environment Day – New Zealand

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:01

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Nuhaka Hikoi during World Environment Day with participation from Kaumatua, tamariki

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:01

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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Nuhaka Hikoi during World Environment Day with participation from Kaumatua, tamariki

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:01

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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Nuhaka Hikoi during World Environment Day with participation from Kaumatua, tamariki

CO2untdown to Meltdown Everyone is learning

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

CO2untdown to Meltdown Everyone is learning

Everyone was learning how to “Kick the Carbon Habit in the CO2untdown to Meltdown

CO2untdown to Meltdown The Ice is MELTING 2

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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Kaitaia awoke on 5 June to find two giant block of melting ice in their town
centre, and the CO2untdown to Meltdown had started.

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children Learning 2

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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All the local schools took part in CO2untdown to Meltdown

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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CO2untdown to Meltdown The Ice is MELTING The blocks of melting ice brought home the alarming reality of our shrinking ice caps and climate
change.

CO2untdown to Meltdown Kai Maori

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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CO2untdown to Meltdown Kai Maori

CO2untdown to Meltdown The Ice is MELTING 1

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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CO2untdown to Meltdown The Ice is MELTING

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children at the ready

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:17

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children at the ready

From 9am to 4pm schools and community groups from around the Far
North gathered at the Kaitaia Community Centre to showcase their
understanding of global warming and outline the steps they are taking to
kick the CO2 habit.

CO2untdown to Meltdown How big is your Footprint

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:16

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

CO2untdown to Meltdown How big is your Footprint

CO2untdown to Meltdown How big is your Footprint

CO2untdown to Meltdown Kids Learning

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:16

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

CO2untdown to Meltdown Kids Learning

All the local schools took part in CO2untdown to Meltdown

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children Learning

Wed, 07/02/2008 - 14:16

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children Learning

CO2untdown to Meltdown Children Learning

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:50

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World Environment Week Beachlands School - Enviro Day 2009

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:50

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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World Environment Week Beachlands School - Enviro Day 2008

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:50

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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World Environment Week Beachlands School - the children dressed up in recycled costumes

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Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:49

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World Environment Week Beachlands School - Minister of Education the Hon Chris Carter planting a pohutukawa tree

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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 14:44

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UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner speaking at the UNEP Press Conference

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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 14:44

WorldEnvironmentDay posted a photo:

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UNEP Press Conference

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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 14:44

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Kiribati President Anote Tong speaking at the UNEP Press Conference