Whio Awareness Week 2025 competition

There’s something very special about that moment you spot whio in the wild – especially for the first time. We’re excited to be running a whio photo/video competition for Whio Awareness Week this year.

We know there are many whio fans with some amazing content and cool stories to share of how you looked out for whio. So, this is your chance to get involved in Whio Awareness Week by sharing your story with us – you might even win a cool prize.

How to enter

To enter, complete the online entry form filling in these details:

• your details
• upload your whio photo or video submission
• include a short story, description or caption of your photo or video
• confirm copyright details (see bottom of page) for your submission and accept the terms and conditions for entry.

Complete the online entry form

Read the full terms and conditions

Categories and prizes

We have several prize categories. Each prize pack is designed to help you continue looking out for whio, either by learning more about whio and how they need protecting, or gear to support future adventures.

Category: Delightful Ducklings 'Cutest chick pic'
Prize: Predator Free NZ trapping prize pack

Category: Whio Flair 'Most captivating whio photo'
Prize: Go-Pro Hero Action Cam 

Category: Fav Whio Film 'Best whio video'
Prize: Go-Pro Hero Action Cam 

Category: Catchiest Caption 'Wittiest or most captivating caption submitted with your competition entry on how you looked out for whio'
Prize: $150 Macpac Voucher

Category: Wildcard 'Wildest whio photo or video'
Prize: $600 towards two tickets on a whitewater rafting trip anywhere in New Zealand

Category: Spot prizes
Prize: Five spot prizes of Whio Forever merch will also be randomly drawn from all valid entries

Competition dates

The Whio Awareness Week competition will run from Friday 21 March - 11:59pm Sunday 6 April 2025. 

Winners will be announced by Sunday 13 April 2025. 

We’ll select one winner per category, based on the judging criteria.

Judging Criteria

• Relevance to each of the five category titles.
• Originality and creativity of photo/video, and description.
• Reflective of the characteristics of the species or their habitat.

Copyright

Your competition entry must have a Creative Commons licence. You can select which licence you prefer.

We recommend one of these:

• CC-BY-4.0: lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as they credit you for the original creation - even commercially
• CC-BY-NC-4.0: lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as they credit you for the original creation - but cannot be used commercially.

If you want another Creative Commons licence, specify which one. If you don't specify a licence, we'll use the default CC-BY-4.0.