iNaturalist

It was a huge privilege to share iNaturalist’s impact on the TED Conferences stage earlier this month! All credit goes to the incredible iNaturalist community sharing observations, expertise, and action. Together, we can tackle the extinction crisis and create a world where millions of people are actively celebrating, documenting, and protecting the amazing nature we share this planet with. A heartfelt thank you to the entire iNaturalist team—especially Tony Iwane for helping prepare awesome visuals—and to everyone who shared their nature stories with me. It was an honor to bring those stories to the TED stage. More soon on when the talk will be released!

Happy Earth Day! With 🌵💚🌵, iNaturalist (ft. Coastal Pricklypear, aka Opuntia littoralis). 📷 shrike2 on iNaturalist 📍 United States 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gQtZUzE7 #ObservationOfTheDay

Even in some of the most-visited places (like national parks), there's still so much to learn — the next time you're outdoors, be sure look both up and down. 👀 #NationalParkWeek #ProtectOurParks #RecreateResponsibly

“It’s pretty impressive how large a crab they can manage and how quickly they can eat it.” While removing invasive coconut trees on Palmyra Atoll, field researcher Tlell Wolf witnessed this Peppered Moray (Gymnothorax pictus) snatch a Thin-shelled Rock Crab (Graspus tenuicrustatus) on the beach. These eels, which can reach 140 cm in length, were a common sight during her four months of restoration work on the atoll. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g7qfV_-H

Probably the easiest but most impactful thing you can do *right now* for wild nature near you is to take a photo … and then share it. And we just launched a brand-new version of the iNaturalist app for iPhones to help you do exactly that! It lets you identify your local nature and connect with a worldwide community of fellow nature-lovers to contribute to science and conservation — download it here (100% free!): https://lnkd.in/gDqX_5Jv

"As a passionate wildlife observer, I use iNaturalist to document the species I encounter – whether at home, on hikes, or while working in the field." An ecologist in Australia saw this vibrant green Paridotea ungulata "sea centipede" isopod and it's our Observation of the Week! Story at: https://lnkd.in/gcNvY4Yu #communityscience #citizenscience

“I've learned so much from the incredibly supportive iNat community, and I love being able to give some of that back through helping others.” Meet one of the top springtail identifiers on iNaturalist who's also a talented macro photographer in our latest Identifier Profile! Story here: https://lnkd.in/g3YMFavp #citizenscience #communityscience

Honored to unveil the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset today at #ESRI #FedGIS! 🎉 A major step in making species distribution data more accessible for research and conservation. Explore it here: 🌍📍🔗 https://lnkd.in/g4SAJK-t

🎉 Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa in the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset! To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍 https://lnkd.in/g3AZGA2n #iNaturalist #Biodiversity #OpenData

"It is extremely rare to observe, let alone closely examine, the flowering of Climacoptera lanata." A botanist in Kazakhstan photographed this tiny flower and it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gW63mZsr #botany #nature #citizenscience