Amateur Herpetologists, grab your camera phones! It’s time to go lizard hunting for science!
From the website: “There are over 9,000 recognized species of reptile in the world. Many are extremely poorly known and many more are threatened with extinction. The Global Reptile BioBlitz is the sister effort to the Global Amphibian BioBlitz and aims to collect amateur observations of every species of reptile. Together, we can map where these incredible creatures persist and insure their conservation into the future.”
Both the Global Reptile and the Global Amphibian BioBlitz are powered by a website called iNaturlist.org, developed by UC Berkeley students teamed together with Stanford researchers and many other conservation organizations.
What they want YOU to do is to go lizard / snake / turtle hunting, capture pictures of what you find, and upload these pictures to the website along with the GPS position of where you took the photo (most modern smart phones with cameras will do this, as can regular digital cameras augmented with a Eye-Fi SD memory card.
Every observation helps! And what a great excuse to go catch some lizards.
September 13th, 2011 by Jerry in News | Comment (1)