Someone please tell me if this is wrong, and if so why: An idea. In order to get the most valuable data into the system as quickly as possible, INaturalist should consider promoting itself in the world’s most populous tropical cities. -Densely populated tropical cities have vast numbers of potenti…

There seems to be a misconception in some of the comments in this post that tropical countries lack identifiers. Looking at a sample of countries in Africa it appears that there are about 2 identifiers for every observer ! Africa is lacking observers, and I dont think Africa is producing enough ob…

You’re giving me an great excuse to travel to the tropics sometime soon, just to make lots of observations!

Wow, fascinating data! Many thanks!!

We really do need you here in Africa focusing you camera lens on the small things like lichens, moths, bugs, mozzies, millipedes and fungi. Perhaps we have plenty of lion and elephant observations but Africa really does lack observations of the less exciting and minute things ! Come to Botswana w…

I like that iNat is growing, but it’s already growing and I don’t want to grow it so fast that the servers crash I also question the degree to which the interesting tropical biodiversity is in cities, millions of observations of the tropical equivalent of a city pigeon is probably not what OP was i…

You care about the food when there are life bugs to be found??? ;-)

You can eat the bugs … https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/119995-Gonimbrasia-belina (Not me, I’m vegetarian)

I spent 3 weeks in Kenya last winter and made observations of a wide variety of taxa, it’s been interesting to see what gets identified and what doesn’t. I haven’t uploaded most of my megafauna obs yet but the few I have were ID’d quickly. Tropical fish were relatively fast. Insects were faster than…

We need to ‘keep the old’ and pass the torch to the next generation. We need all the iNatters we have, and then some for the future.

An Idea To Promote Explosive Growth for INaturalist and its Data

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Regarding your table, I think I contribute one identifier to almost every country listed. Hard to avoid that in getting iNat stats.

Most important for planning a trip … How’s the food?

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