Upload Your Home Photos of Amphibians To Social Network To Help Protect Endangered Species
The website allows amateur naturalists from around the world to upload their amphibian photographs along with dates and GPS locations. The project is curated by a team of scientists who will identify and filter the submissions in search of rare species or out-of-range occurrences of interest to the scientific and conservation communities.
A new social networking site engages any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist, who totes a camera, as a “citizen scientist” and offers a chance to help scientists survey and hopefully save the world’s amphibians.
The platform begins with a new partnership between Global Amphibian Blitz, sponsored by iNaturalist, and University of California, Berkeley’s AmphibiaWeb, a comprehensive database of the world’s nearly 7,000 amphibians, involving many biological groups from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to the Amphibian Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission, which is part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The website allows amateur naturalists from around the world to upload their amphibian photographs along with dates and GPS locations.
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