Become a citizen scientist from your phone
Do you know all the weird and wonderful creatures and plants that surround us every day but go unnoticed?
You’re about to find out! Become a Citizen Scientist in the Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve (CWBR) with no more than your curiosity and a cell phone. Contribute to important research and build your own online collection of what you find by identifying the plants and animals living in the rich landscape that surrounds you.
It can all done though the iNaturalist or Seek mobile app. Seek is an app useful for beginners and appropriate for youth [optional to be connected to the online iNaturalist community], which identifies species without photography or a registered account. The iNaturalist app is for citizens or the avid researcher who wants to take the more scientific approach. *
The CWBR has joined the iNaturalist community to launch an active Collective Project page that collates the fauna and flora data captured by individuals registered with the iNaturalist website within the CWBR. The Collective Project page will also function as a platform for CWBR facilitated Bio-Blitzes (identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time with the help of youth, research students, or volunteers), contributing to local biodiversity data collections or research through insight of the biodiversity found in a specific area.
Visit our iNaturalist page here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cape-winelands-biosphere-reserve
Explore the app and register: https://www.inaturalist.org/
*Good quality photographs, correctly identified, and dated, will be used for scientific research, contributing to the ongoing global study of biodiversity which the app is utilized for.
