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.
Photographer’s comment: “A fisherman throwing out a net at Situ Gunung Lake, Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia. The lake is a well known destination for professional and amateur photographers. The ray of light comes through in the morning around 6 –
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Photographer’s comment: “Tebing Keraton is also known as the Instagram Hill among netizen in Indonesia. The landscape is extremely dangerous and beautiful. The pine forest under the cliff across the Juanda Park makes the visitors dare to take selfies
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Photographer’s comment: “It was a nice sunny day in late October. I was on a trip and stopped to have a break. The view was fascinating and this little plant made it even nicer. This is the reason why I
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Photographer’s comment: “Fotografia tomada en la La Punta, en la foto se puede apreciar una gaviota en pleno vuelo y de fondo se logra ver a unos pescadores artesanales utilizando un bote rustico y sin motor evitando de esta forma
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Photographer’s comment: “In the fertile Paro valley, young monks watch the river swell following heavy summer rains. Bhutan’s constitution states that 60% of the country’s land shall always remain under forest cover. The country’s healthy forests help generate rains and
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Photographer’s comment: “Luego de un soleado día a más de 43 grados en la Amazonía de Puerto Maldonado (Madre de Dios), en instantes remolinos de viento levantan la tierra hasta el cielo, mientras la gente se pregunta ¿esto es por
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Photographer’s comment: “Esta fotografía fue tomada desde la parte baja del malecom en Leticia. Y muestra el privilegio que tienen los pobladores de la zona al disfrutar de la fusión entre magnificas tonalidades, naturaleza, la imponencia del río Amazonas con
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Photographer’s comment: “Alambrada en el desierto, Desierto de la tatacoa, Colombia. En esta foto se evidencian no solo la vegetación y condiciones propias de un ecosistema desértico; sino que también se puede observar la intervención humana con una simple alambrada,
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Photographer’s comment: “This photo was taken in Uyuni Bolivia, shows small holder agriculture and pasture next to a big salt deposit and Natural beauty, salar de Uyuni.”
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Photographer’s comment: “Tea plantations serve as buffer zones protecting the small areas that remain forested in the country“
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Photographer’s comment: “This landscape depict a perfect example of sustainable utilization of landscape through multi-cropping pattern. This sustainable farming practice is not only securing the food, health and livelihood but also securing the crops from adverse climatic condition risks.
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Photographer’s comment: “Most of the villages in Uttarakhand and other Hill states have been dependent on forests and its related resources. A number of higher Himalayan forests have been converted into farmlands for food and livelihoods. But, in recent
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Photographer’s comment: “Con esta fotografía se deja claro la estrecha relación de los habitantes del amazonas colombiano que viven del río y para el río. Acá el Amazonas no solo es río más caudaloso del planeta, sencillamente es su mundo.
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Photographer’s comment: “The photo shows the forest and the farm in the Himalaya in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. It shows how forest ecosystem is essential for the sustainability of farm ecosystem as forest provide moisture, suitable micro climate, nutrients,
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Photographer’s comment: “The photo shows how people in the rural India conserve natural resources through faith. In this picture we can see the water body from where a girl is collecting water for drinking, while the livestock are drinking water.
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Photographer’s comment: “The photo shows how through the religious sentiments of the people help in sustaining the landscapes and help in providing the ecosystem services like water. In this picture we can see the water body full of water which
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Photographer’s comment: “The lowland forests of Sumatra, Indonesia, include some of the most biologically diverse tropical forests in the world, yet they have been reduced to a small remnant of their former extent. Lowland forest areas have disappeared particularly fast
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Photographer’s comment: “Indonesia’s forests have shrunk dramatically in the past few decades. They have been cut for timber and to clear land for agriculture and other development. Forest loss often begins with commercial hardwood extraction (logging).”
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Photographer’s comment: “A monkeys eye view of the days end from 50 meters up in a Dipteryx alata, Know locally as the Shihuahuaco tree. As the number of large trees are depleted from the rainforest so goes with them
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