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Count a penguin, map a squirrel or tag a tree

A useful skill for all conservationists is observation. Whatever you are interested in or need help with or even if you just want a break from what you are doing there are many citizen science projects you can support and here are a few of them.

Feb 01, 2024

Jackie Symmons

Ecologist and Wildlife Management Consultant, Self-Employed

Count a penguin, map a squirrel or tag a tree

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I often look to keep upto date with volunteer and citizen science projects and support field conservation research online that anyone can get involved in and I found Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/about). If you have five minutes check it out and help ground truth conservation research imagery data. Yes I'm sure AI could do it quicker but wheres the fun in that?

Count Penguins: https://frontend.preview.zooniverse.org/projects/penguintom79/penguin-watch

Map a squirrel: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bcosentino/squirrelmapper

Tag a tree: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/physicsjosh/tag-trees

Jackie Symmons

Ecologist and Wildlife Management Consultant, Self-Employed

Ecologist with extensive terrestrial practical survey, training and education, consultancy and advisory experience. Extensive wildlife conservation research and land management project experience as well as in working in forestry, agriculture and natural resource management, climate change resilience and disaster recovery. I've also lectured on field survey techniques, environmental impact assessments and flood and fire risk management and am also working on climate change impacts and mitigation. Open to short term consultancy projects.