Welcome, iNaturalist Ecuador!
We are pleased to officially announce the launch of iNaturalist Ecuador! Ecuador’s Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO) is the newest partner in the international iNaturalist Network. INABIO played a key role in organizing the Amazonian city of Tena’s participation in the City Nature Challenge earlier this year (Reto Naturalista Urbano Tena 2019). The overall participation in Ecuador has increased substantially already with INABIO’s encouragement of the community, which is evident in the iNaturalist World Tour post for Ecuador.
Ecuador is home to astounding biodiversity that ranks it easily in the top 10 most biodiverse countries. This is especially impressive considering that there are 72 countries in the world with greater land area. Many species remain undescribed or poorly known, so there is great potential and need to broadly cultivate the skills of biodiversity observation and identification. Thanks to INABIO’s leadership, iNaturalist Ecuador is well positioned to foster the next generation of talented Ecuadorian biologists.
The iNaturalist Network has seven nationally-focused sites that are fully connected and interoperable with the global iNaturalist site. Roughly in the order that they joined, the other sites are: NaturaLista Mexico, iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao (formerly NatureWatch NZ), iNaturalist Canada, Naturalista Colombia, Biodiversity4All (Portugal), and iNaturalist Panamá. Any iNaturalist user can log in on any of the sites using their same credentials and will see the same notifications.
The iNaturalist Network model allows for localizing the iNaturalist experience to better support communities on a national scale and local leadership in the movement, without splitting the community into isolated, national sites. The iNaturalist team is grateful to the outreach, training, translations, and user support carried out through the efforts of the iNaturalist Network member institutions. You can read more about Network here.
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awesome!
Good news!
Excellent News!
Great! It´s such an amazing country with an even more amazing biodiversity.
Welcome!
Nice! I can only hope that a few experts become involved in the near future to revisit older observations. I was there earlier this year and it's kinda frustrating how many observations are still in need of ID.
By the way, Field Museum has published quite a few visual guides for Ecuador: https://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/guides?country=934. A little help that is to be enjoyed with caution, though.
¡Bienvenidos, hermanos ecuatorianos!
Thank you very much @carrieseltzer for the welcome!! As INABIO we're excited with this challenge!! We're sure that people will see how strategic it's iNat as we know it..
Thank you every one for your amazing messages!!
Les esperamos en Ecuador!!
All of the photos I took while working in Ecuador are on film and in storage in a different country.
Hopefully I'll eventually get an opportunity to scan them in and post some of them to iNat.
What one do they use in the United States?
Also awesome!
Also awesome! When launch in Asia？
Bienvenidos los ecuatorianos!!
I can't wait to see Andreas Kay @andreaskay observations as part of this.
BIENVENIDO , Ecuador ... !
yaaaaass!
Congratulations! Felicitaciones a los compañeros de Ecuador.
¡Bienvenidos!
Woow, Bienvenidos que bueno que se siga expandiendo esta idea.
Saludos a Ecuador! So happy to see my Peace Corps service country in the naturalist network!
Very nice! It would be wonderful to know how this was developed, to inspire people in areas where the main iNat is not efficient and new partners of the iNat network would be useful :-)
CONABIO and National Geographic convened a meeting on biodiversity citizen science in Latin America last year in Mexico City, and @inclandj from INABIO was one of the attendees. @loarie and I presented about iNaturalist and how the iNaturalist Network works. That was the origin of iNaturalist Ecuador. iNaturalist Panama also came out of that meeting. And more on the way!
Please check out the page about the Network if you're curious to read more about how it works and reach out to me with questions.
Hope that helps @amarzee :-)
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