CONSERVATION MEDIA AWARD

The 2023 Conservation Media Award Winners are In!

The world needs media focused on wildlife conservation! Quality media can embolden everyone, including our communities and industries into positive action — something wildlife desperately needs from each of us, not just from hunters, anglers and adventurists. As an organization that encourages everyone to give back to wildlife conservation with their time and money, we are perfectly positioned to help catalyze this change in media.

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About the 2023 entries... 

We received many fantastic submissions in film, audio, and written form this year representing true conservation work in both outdoor and popular media — all of which can be seen on our 2023 Conservation Media Award gallery. Enjoy the entries, support the initiatives, and consider making your own submission for next year’s award!

ABOUT THE AWARD

VIEW OUR LIBRARY OF PAST WINNERS AND NOMINEES

Although Media Awards were launched in 2018, we saw a demand to increase participation in effort for conservation-focused media to be accessible for generations to come so in 2020, we started compiling not only the winning entries, but also all the finalists and entries that placed. You can view the collection of entrants here!

Submit your Media for Next Year!

2024 Entry Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2024

Anyone may enter! You don't have to be a full-time or "pro" writer, speaker, IG personality, videographer, photographer, podcaster or have your own production team. Your follower count does not matter - how and what you share about fish and wildlife conservation does.

Anyone may nominate an entry! We know many creatives and content creators are busy 'out in the field' and we do not want that to get in the way of their conservation content being seen. We allow entries submitted by anyone, for anyone, as long as it follows our entry criteria (below).

Entry Criteria

Entries will be reviewed and voted on by members of the 2% for Conservation Committee Program. If a Committee Member enters a submission, they are required to abstain from voting.

The winning entries for each category will be publicly announced in August 2024 across all 2% channels and their names added to the side of the prestigious award alongside past winners.

Key Considerations

• Does this entry elevate fish and wildlife conservation?

  • Hunting, angling and adventure content in entries are not only allowed, but encouraged, but those activities should take a back-seat to conservation in the content of the entry.

• Does this entry address a pressing conservation issue?

  • The content should focus on a present conservation cause or challenge that the public needs to know about.

• Entries extolling the virtues of hunting and angling as a conservation tool are appreciated, but that should be a background message of the entry - after the conservation content.

• Entries published prior to 2019 will not be considered.

• Is this entry easy to understand or at least well explained for everyone... not just hunters and anglers?

  • The main conservation message should be understandable to all who view.

• Is this entry predominantly about conservation or selling products/services?

  • This should go without saying, but every year we still receive entries promoting a product/service/experience. Those entries will not be shared in any of our marketing.

• Is this entry FREE or easily/cheaply accessible for the general public?

  • While we understand that media work is not free, entries should be easily and freely accessible to the public.

  • Any video / podcast / audio entries that require a paid subscription to a viewing service (or an outright purchase of the film to view it) will receive a minor deduction from the judges.

  • Written entries in books, subscription magazines, and newspapers will not receive the same deduction as they are more often readily available to the public in libraries and other free means after print.

• Categories:

  • VIDEO

    • Video entries may be single episodes, a series of common-topic episodes, or singular films.

    • Channels / Series may not be entered.

  • WRITTEN/AUDIO

    • Paired together because of their common spoken-word / long-form nature.

    • Podcast entries may be of a singular episode, or an entire channel if that channel is primarily dedicated to wildlife conservation with that being the overwhelming majority of the channel's content.

  • STUDENT

    • Student entries must be made by either a present K-College student or someone who was a student during the 2020-2021 school years.

    • Student entries may be in any form of media.

  All three category winners will have their names put on the trophy!