E: 17/04 Win a Trip Shark-Tagging with WWF (effort required)

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If you’ve taken any great photographs of the British coast or local sea life, email them to us – and you could win a trip shark-tagging with WWF! Or if photography’s not your thing, you can still get involved – just email your personal thoughts and memories about the sea to the same address.

Email [EMAIL="photocomp-marine@wwf.org.uk"]photocomp-marine@wwf.org.uk [/EMAIL]or upload your images on flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/wwf-ukmarinephoto/ (Note: there’s a maximum size limit of 4Mb on any file you send, compressed or uncompressed)

Full details here: http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/campaigning/marine_act_campaign/marine_photo_competition.cfm

Trip Details:
It should take place between April and September 2009, but Shark-tagging trips are weather dependent. We ask that you try to be flexible with dates.

The day will start at around 8.30am with a safety briefing on the boat, and you will depart from the tagging area around 3pm, returning to the harbour around 4pm.

You’ll be shown how to handle sharks correctly, measure and weigh the sharks we capture, record their sex, species, condition and details of any parasites, and note down information about the location, tide and weather. You’ll tag any sharks weighing over 4.5kg with a numbered tag inserted below their dorsal fin, before releasing them safely back into the sea. The data collected will be sent to the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton.

WWF will pay for the costs of boat hire and equipment for the winner and one guest. WWF will also contribute up to a maximum of £50 towards your travel expenses for the trip.

Terms and Conditions:
- The closing date for entries is Friday 17 April 2009.
- All entries should be submitted via email or the WWF Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/groups/wwf-ukmarinephoto/
The competition is open to anyone aged over 16 and resident in the United Kingdom, apart from employees of WWF.
- No more than five entries per person.
- You must be the sole author and owner of the copyright for all images you send us. (If you’re not sure about copyright, here’s a tip: you always automatically own the copyright of the pics you take, unless you’ve signed away that right in a previous contract). You will retain the copyright for all the images you submit to us. By entering your images into the competition, you grant WWF a “non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable licence” to use and reproduce the images for any purpose in connection with the competition and for use on a non-commercial basis by WWF. Might sound complex, but here’s the basic translation: “non-exclusive” means you can still use the photos yourself or license them elsewhere, if you wish; “royalty-free” means we won’t pay you for using your pics in this context (your talent gets some free publicity instead); “irrevocable” just means you’re giving us permission to use the photographs for as long as we need them. If we would like to reproduce or use your images for any other purpose, we’d negotiate this with you first.
- WWF is unable to accept responsibility for any entries that are damaged during electronic transit or which we just don’t receive.
- The winners of the competition will be notified by email by Thursday 30 April 2009.
- Results will be announced on wwf.org.uk.
- The judge’s decision has to be final – we can’t enter into any correspondence.
- If the winner is unable to claim his/her prize, for whatever reason, we will offer an alternative prize to be decided by us – though it may not necessarily be to the same value.

Serched URL, 'Shark-Tagging', closing date and 'WWF' so I hope this isn't a dupe!