10 years – to «The Golden Turtle»!

A hoopoe. Photo courtesy of the organizers of «The Golden Turtle» festival
A hoopoe. Photo courtesy of the organizers of «The Golden Turtle» festival

The 15th of July there is open the tenth anniversary festival «The Golden Turtle» in the «Manege» Central Exhibition Hall. The Russian Geographical Society has been supporting this project by its grants.

«The Golden Turtle» traditionally gathers the best photographers, artists and designers, presenting their works in one of the most popular genres of the audience - wildlife and its preservation. For 10 years the festival has gained the status of the biggest in the world on the quantity of the countries – participants of the festival on arts of nature for 10 years. Moreover, «The Golden Turtle» is being  the only Russian UN Ambassador in the decade of biodiversity conservation (is being held by the Organization of the United Nations from 2011 to 2020).

Now it is the most traveling and most visited exhibition in the country. More than 10 000 authors from over than 130 countries of the world took part in the festival for the whole its story, and more than 100 000 works have been presented on it, and more than 5 millions of visitors in different countries and cities visited the exhibition.

We congratulate the organizers and the participants of the festival – our friends and colleagues - on the anniversary and wish the story of «The Golden Turtle» went on, and the success and popularity of it only increased over the years!