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| Photo by Júlia Aguiar |
iNaturalist is the application where you get all the information you need about the fauna and flora that surrounds you.
This app, which is currently only available for IOS, was developed by iNaturalist, an online community of people interested in Nature. It was founded by Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline and Ken-ichi Ueda and began in 2008 as part of a master's project at the University of Berkeley, USA.
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The idea of iNaturalist is to be a space where naturalists, ecologists and nature enthusiasts can register and discuss their observations of fauna and flora, helping each other by exchanging information on the species they found. At this moment there are already 147589 species observed and it has about 620634 people registered on the platform.
Their findings are shared in repositories of scientific data, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, to help scientists around the world find and use their data.
It's an easy-to-use application where you only need to take a focused, close-up photo of the living being we want to identify and then add as much data as we know about it. In this way, we are either helping to discover new species that do not appear in the application and discovering ourselves more about this species if it has already been identified by another user.
From the iNaturalist application, a new one was created from the same author: Seek. This is another catalog that already contains more than 150 thousand species and where users can go "collecting" the different species. The only difference for iNaturalist is that no user can add new species but only collect the ones they find and already exist within the application.
Written by: Marta Costa
Translated by: Júlia Aguiar
Video: Francisca Rehbein and Andreia Castro
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