Want to participate in an iNaturalist MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

Mission Impossible - Identifying unidentified Plants in Africa!
A challenge for August 2023!

Mission impossible for August is to try and get as many observations to Research Grade as possible. So why dont we take up the challenge for the trees? How many trees can we identify in August?
Please participate, and why not get your friendly tree enthusiasts to participate too.

Deadline is 31 August!

At present in southern Africa we have 7,700 observations of Trees that have not been identified, or that have been identified, but require agreement to attain Research Grade.

Mission impossible is to try and get as many observations to Research Grade as possible. So why dont we take up the challenge for the trees? How many trees can we identify in August?
Deadline is 31 August!

Simply participate here:

• Cape Flora: 780 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&page=3&project_id=28880&place_id=123067

• Summer rainfall southern Africa: 6.900 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&page=5&project_id=28880&place_id=113055&not_in_place=123067

Details of Mission Impossible - Identifying unidentified Plants in Africa! can be found here https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/82630-mission-impossible-identifying-unidentified-plants-in-africa

Some special projects. - What will the final figures be?

Kruger National Park: 430 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880&place_id=69020

Caprivi Strip: 1,900 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880&place_id=11403,16967

Namibia: 2,850 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880&place_id=7140

Botswana: 1,100 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880&place_id=7105

KwaZulu-Natal: 750 observations on 8 August
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880&place_id=13313

Which regions will make the biggest impact?

New to the ID tool? Or need a refresher?

A quick 2 minute tour here: https://vimeo.com/246153496

Posted on August 8, 2023 08:28 PM by

tonyrebelo

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Interested in helping in your own neighbourhood? You can help in two ways.

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Identify the trees in the queue:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=any&project_id=28880
and add your own neighbourhood (reserve, town, district or province) to narrow down the trees to your local hood.

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You can also help by adding the tree project to unknown tree observations
Everyone recognizes a tree right? So anyone can help with this.
Add the tree project to any trees of plants languishing as unidentified, to get it to our local specialists.

Step 1: Join this project (you only need do this once)
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trees-of-southern-africa-id

Step 2: Search here: and add the tree project to any trees (of course - if you can ID them, then please do so! - but you dont need to do more than be able to say: "that is a tree" to help here!)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=Plantae&lrank=epifamily&place_id=113055&verifiable=any&&without_taxon_id=311249,121943,47163,64615&not_in_project=trees-of-southern-africa-id
and add your own neighbourhood (reserve, town, district or province) to narrow down the observations to your local hood.

Note that some observations may just need a nudge. They have already been identified, but there is a disagreement. If you can help resolve the impasse, that would help a lot ..

Posted by tonyrebelo 9 months ago

Summary at end of iNaturalist MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - AFRICA for trees

Details of Mission Impossible - Identifying unidentified Plants in Africa! can be found here https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/82630-mission-impossible-identifying-unidentified-plants-in-africa

Observations requiring an Identification to Research Grade:

• Cape Flora: 780 observations on 8 August - 1,027 on 01 September
• Summer rainfall southern Africa: 6.900 observations on 8 August - 7,057 on 01 September

Special projects. -

Namibia: 2,850 observations on 8 August - 2,876 on 01 September
Caprivi Strip: 1,900 observations on 8 August - 1,901 on 01 September
Botswana: 1,100 observations on 8 August - 1,094 on 01 September
KwaZulu-Natal: 750 observations on 8 August - 772 on 01 September
Kruger National Park: 430 observations on 8 August - 458 on 01 September

Posted by tonyrebelo 8 months ago

Numbers: (01 Sept 2023) in the Tree Atlas Project. (n=15,918)
Compared to 29 Nov 2022 (n = 12,823)

Trees with no identification at all: 231 down 3,864 1.5% (was 32%)
Trees with no meaningful identification (above family): 5,210 up 4,479 33% (was 5.7%)

Trees to family: 421 up 394 2.6% (was 0.2%)
Trees to genus: 894 up 740 5.6% (was 1.2%)
Trees to species needing confirmation: 2,014 up 562 12.7% (was 11.3%)
Trees Research Grade: 6,794 up 3,758 42.7% (was 23.7%)