The Global Landscapes Forum challenged photographers around the world to submit their best images relating to sustainability. The top 24 Jury shortlisted photos were on display during the COP20 in one of the prime locations in Lima, Kennedy Park, where thousands of passersby had a chance to look at them while the Peruvian capital was hosting the UN climate negotiations.
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Photographer’s comment: “This photo is of an archipelago on the Pacific Coast of Panama. The area is known for it’s untouched rain forests, howler monkeys, large fish and many varieties of sea mammals including humpback whales.”
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Photographer’s comment: “This photo was taken in a community of descendants of slaves, called Quilombolas. They live in Rio Trombetas, in the State of Pará, Brazil.”
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Photographer’s comment: “Kenya is the third largest producer of tea and the world’s leading exporter. Kenya’s tea industry provides livelihoods for more than 500,000 small farmers in the country’s rural highlands, including the woman pictured here. The factories in which
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Photographer’s comment: “The photograph depicts gullies that formed due to significant erosion in rural Sanyati, Zimbabwe. This form of land degradation detrimentally affects agricultural production and local livelihoods.“
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Photographer’s comment: “Terraces are the only way rice can be grown on mountain slopes. Such techniques have been implemented, quite independently of each other, by a multitude of different populations. One can observe this feat of engineering in China,
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Photographer’s comment: “Terraces are the only way rice can be grown on mountain slopes. Such techniques have been implemented, quite independently of each other, by a multitude of different populations. One can observe this feat of engineering in China,
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Photographer’s comment: “Terraces are the only way rice can be grown on mountain slopes. Such techniques have been implemented, quite independently of each other, by a multitude of different populations. One can observe this feat of engineering in China,
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Photographer’s comment: “Water in all its forms –fog, rain, lagoon- populates and varnishes this landscape in central Mexico. A mix of land uses, from forestry to tourism to agriculture, has allowed the smallholders who live and work around the
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Photographer’s comment: “As in a dancing floor, ecosystems and ecotones intertwine and dance with different land uses in the mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Coming up from the dry Central Valleys south of Cuajimoloyas –the village in the
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Photographer’s comment: “Rosa’s land lays directly on the edge that joins the forests and agricultural lands, and she strives to make sure this boundary unites and does not split this two ecosystems and land uses. Using organic and traditional
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Photographer’s comment:”The photo was taken on the shore of Mar Chiquita near the town of Miramar in northern Argentina. Flooding due to climate change had inundated the shoreline causing tremendous economic loss to the communities along the lakeshore, and
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Photographer’s comment: “The image depicts the importance of water on the landscape, and the problem of its increasing rarity – or overabundance.“
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Photographer’s comment: “The image depicts how climate change can transform landscapes.”
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Photographer’s comment: “Aerial photo taken right before landing on the Iguazu Aiport in Brazil, flying over the limit of the Iguazu National Park. This park recieves hundreds of thousands of visitors and is part of a heavily used and
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Photographer’s comment: “In Perú in the Ancash region. The Huascarán is the highest mountain in Peru, and is located inside the Huascarán National Park. There are thousands of people living nearby or even on the park itself, practicing mainly
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Photographer’s comment: “Huarmey is located on the coast of the Ancash region in Peru. This landscape has multiple uses and is densely populated. Agriculture, fishing, transportation and even mining are at play in this area.“
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Photograper’s comment: “Orillas de Llachón, Puno: la fotografía fue tomada en el poblado de Llachón, en el distrito de Capachica, Puno. En las orillas del lago podemos encontrar armonía entre las actividades de pesca, turismo rural y agricultura.”
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Photographer’s comment: “A lo largo del litoral peruano hay 22 islas guaneras que recuerdan la prosperidad del Perú durante el siglo XIX, cuando el país fue un gran exportador de guano. Pero en nuestros días el equilibrio es frágil. Cada
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Photographer’s comment: “La armonía inicial que nos hacia asociar estas tierra a la palabra paraiso, ahora es un lugar escondido que se aleja cada día mas. Que queda en su lugar? No una orilla, sino una grieta entre el hombre
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