Every photograph on Wild Earth Watch is sourced from Unsplash. Here is exactly which image is used where, under what license, and an honest note on what we could not verify.
All photography on Wild Earth Watch is sourced from Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License. That license permits free use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes without requiring permission or attribution — crediting the photographer is "appreciated," in Unsplash's own words, but not legally required for the way these images are used here (direct hotlinked embedding, rather than integration with Unsplash's developer API, which carries separate, stricter attribution requirements).
The license does not permit compiling these images into a competing stock-photo service, does not permit implying a photographer's endorsement of Wild Earth Watch, and may require a model release for certain commercial uses of images containing recognizable people. None of the images currently in use depict recognizable individuals.
Consistent with our Editorial Standards and our commitment not to state anything we cannot verify, we are not listing individual photographer names on this page. We were unable to reliably confirm photographer attribution for these images without access to Unsplash's official developer API, and we would rather list no name than list a guessed or unverified one.
Every image below is listed with its exact source URL, so anyone can look up the original photographer directly on Unsplash. Before any real-world launch of this platform, we intend to properly resolve and credit each photographer via the official API — which would also then place us under its stricter attribution requirements, which we would follow in full.
See our Source Policy for how we handle sourcing more broadly, including for data and research claims rather than imagery.