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| Company type | Joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. |
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| Industry | conservation |
| Founded | 2008, California, United States |
Key people | Ken-ichi Ueda Scott Loarie Patrick Leary Alex Shepard |
| Website | www |
iNaturalist is an American website where people post scientific information about plants, animals and other living things. Usually, they send photographs of which living things they saw and say where and when they saw them.[1]
iNaturalist works by crowdsourcing, by asking many, many people to work on the project. Some of the people who send information to iNaturalist are professional scientists and some are citizen scientists, ordinary people who want to help scientific projects. iNaturalist sends information to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and other projects that watch endangered animals and other populations.[1] iNaturalist users can help park rangers and other people who work in forests find and identify invasive species, for example kudzu. According to one park ranger from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the United States, rangers usually already know an invasive plant is in their park, but iNaturalist and programs like it help them find out exactly where it is. Then they can gather people to remove it.[2]
Parks, conservation programs and research teams in many countries have used iNaturalist, for example the United States, Canada and New Zealand.[3][4]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About". iNaturalist. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ↑ Korrin L. Bishop (August 3, 2020). "iNaturalist Does More Than ID Plants: The citizen science app also helped one user find meaning during the pandemic". Sierra Club. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Invertebrate Monitoring in Kaipātiki – Conservation Week 2020". Our Auckland. Retrieved August 28, 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Paul Manning; Morgan Jackson (August 22, 2020). "The role of social media in identifying exotic-looking insects". Halifax Today. Retrieved August 28, 2020.