I hoping someone might be able to help me understand how iNat Australia handles conservation status. Currently it seems to be a bit ad-hoc if the conservation status of a species listed under the federal EPBC Act or the FFG Act in Victoria is listed on iNat. I have noticed this seems to be the case …

welcome to the forum Ben [image] benfish: Is this just because it is a manual task by curators? this is exactly the reason; species don’t get loaded into the database with their conservation status pre-attached, so every one requires manual addition For taxa you want conservation statuses a…

Thanks, I was just about to ask about flagging. I am happy to slowly go through and do this but I don’t want to annoy the curators with a bunch of flags! Good point about the threats, I was wondering how curators determine whether or not to obscure locations. So for a flag the information that woul…

[image] benfish: So for a flag the information that would be useful would be a link to the FFG listing and, in addition, any action plan that mentions the threat. especially if this threat is relevant to obscuring the location data. sure, and also just highlight whether the listing you want a…

Awesome, thanks for the help. Only ~2000 species to check, Should give me something to do until lockdown is over…

You might consider starting a wiki-thread to get other Australian iNatters to help compile a list of species with statuses that need to be updated. There are a few wiki-type threads on here, usually tutorials, e.g. How to use iNaturalist’s Search URLs - wiki or Computer vision clean-up - wiki , which…

So far it seems like the majority of the species listed do not have any conservation status on iNat. I have only done 10 so far, but all of them had no conservation status listed. I think someone has done more work on this in NSW as I have noticed more species with a status for that state in the pas…

May have gone down a bit of a rabbit hole here… It sounds like a simple enough task, flag a species’ conservation status when it’s on the FFG list but not on iNat, simple! But… What about… Geoprivacy… Flag flooding…. Unresolved flags…. The overall size of the task…. After checking around 150 specie…

I think this is great! If you have the knowledge, passion, and time, you can request to be a Curator at help@inaturalist.org . Even if not, a few determined people working together could make a good dent in the flags backup.

Hi @benfish , sorry I haven’t responded earlier. I can help with this - I set up the initial taxon geoprivacy flags based on sensitive lists provided to us at the Atlas of Living Australia for our Sensitive Data Service. I’d be really happy to take you through the issues with lists and we should be a…

I’m not certain what this is all about but I’ve found that many Queensdland orchids have erroneous conservation status on iNat and flag them when I find them. If I can help sort things out, let me know. Should I keep flagging them?

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I would keep flagging them, the curators have been great so far at going through the flags I have submitted. It helps if you can provide a link to the source of the status.

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