Welcome iNaturalist Canada! 2015-06-12
We're pleased to announce the launch of iNaturalist Canada, the newest node in the iNaturalist Network, run by our colleagues at the Canadian Wildlife Federation and the Royal Ontario Museum with support from Parks Canada, NatureServe Canada, and Hinterland Who's Who.
The iNaturalist Network is a set of nationally localized portals into the global iNaturalist community governed by a growing group of international organizations. The Network began in 2013 with the launch of NaturaLista in Mexico by the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad. NatureWatchNZ, run by the New Zealand Bio-Recording Network Trust, joined the Network in 2014. The network strives to balance localizing the iNaturalist software and community outreach on national scales with maintaining a cohesive international community of naturalists. You can now set your Network affiliation on the iNaturalst Android app to localize the app experience and share their data accordingly. iNaturalist Canada plans to use observations for specific conservation decisions within Canada. Similar functionality on the iNaturalist iPhone app is in development and will be launched soon.
Beyond setting up and launching iNaturalist Canada, this group of Canadian organizations has been involved in the iNaturalist effort for over a year through supporting the development of the iNaturalist iOS app to better connect people to protected areas and the biodiversity they harbor, to coordinating bioblitzes across Canada like this bioblitz in late May, to translating the iNaturalist websites and mobile apps into French, an official language of Canada.
To commemorate the launch, iNaturalist Canada will be kicking off a Canada-wide virtual bioblitz on Saturday through the remainder of June. This will coincide with a 24-hour Don Watershed bioblitz on Saturday that is part of the growing Ontario BioBlitz program.
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