iNaturalist

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iNaturalist is a nonprofit community-driven platform where users can share their observations of biodiversity across the globe. It serves as a social network for nature enthusiasts, scientists, and the general public to document and discuss their findings in nature.

By contributing to iNaturalist, users help create open scientific data about biodiversity. The submitted observations—whether of plants, insects, birds, or other organisms—contribute to mapping the state and health of these species. This data is shared with other biodiversity databases and platforms, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and can be used as open data by scientists worldwide.

You can contribute observations via its website or by using one of its mobile apps.

iNaturalist observations (images, videos, sounds) and data can (often) be re-used on Wikimedia projects. iNaturalist itself shows info about species by displaying Wikipedia articles.

This page collects resources related to iNaturalist for Wikimedians, Wikipedians, and the Wikimedia movement.