The 21st Hong Kong Butterfly Race and Photography Contest 2025
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The theme of the "21st Hong Kong Butterfly Race 2025" organized by the Environmental Protection Association's "Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve" is "Appreciate the Ecosystem, Protect the Habitat". The purpose of this event is to allow citizens to learn about butterflies, cultivate appreciation and care for our ecosystem, and thus awaken everyone's responsibility to conserve the ecological environment. The Butterfly Race has a "Best New-Observer" award to encourage more beginners to participate in the competition to learn about butterflies. This year, there is also a "Butterfly Detective Team" to allow parents and children to learn to cherish and conserve natural ecology through an interesting two-day parent-child experience activity.
All funds raised from the competition will be used for ecological conservation at the Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve, making a contribution to Hong Kong's ecological conservation and adding special significance to the competition.
21st Butterfly Photography Contest 2025
The 21th Hong Kong Butterfly Photo Contest 2025
The 21st Hong Kong Butterfly Photography Contest 2025, organized by the Fung Yuen Butterfly Conservation Zone of the Environmental Protection Association, is themed "Appreciate Ecology and Protect Habitat". The purpose is to allow the public to learn about butterflies and use photos to show the natural beauty of butterflies at any stage and in their habitats, so as to cultivate appreciation and care for natural ecology, and thus awaken everyone's responsibility to conserve the ecological environment.
A. Eligibility
Anyone of any age can participate
B. Prizes
*Will be announced later
C. How to participate
After completing and submitting the online form, please email up to 2 entries (file name is "Entry Photo Number") to info@fungyuen.org. Please indicate "Entry for the 21st Hong Kong Butterfly Photo Contest 2025" in the email subject and include the entry photo number.
Photo ID:
Please use the first 4 digits of your Hong Kong Identity Card number followed by your English surname as the photo number. For example, if your Hong Kong Identity Card number is D1234567 (8) Chan Tai Man, your photo number would be: D123Chan_1 (or 2).
D. Competition Rules:
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Participants are required to hold a Hong Kong Identity Card.
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The registration deadline for the competition is 23:59 on November 30, 2025 (Sunday). Late registrations will not be considered.
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Photos may show butterflies at any stage of their life cycle (except specimens).
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Each participant can submit up to 2 entries. Those who fail to submit more will be disqualified.
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The photos must be taken by the entrants themselves in Hong Kong in 2025, and information such as the date, time and location of the shooting must be provided.
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Photos submitted by email must be in JPEG format (RAW files are not required for the time being) and the file size must be less than 10MB.
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Entries that have been entered into other public competitions and won awards will not be accepted for entry.
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The judges will assess the entries based on the following criteria: content (40%), composition (30%) and technique (30%).
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After the shortlisted works are selected, the Association may require participants to submit the RAW files or original files of the shortlisted photos.
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The Association supports natural ecological photography. If any entry is found to have used bad photography techniques (such as setting bait, capturing, raising, etc.), it will be disqualified from the competition.
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In case of any disputes, the Environmental Protection Association reserves the right to make the final decision.