I found today that observations of a plant species (Terminalia buceras) are listed as “introduced” in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, where they are native (according to Powo). So I started to fix this by changing the status from “introduced” to “native” in the respective country checklists. …

There is an option to set checklist presence for places nested within another place (like within a state). However, it often causes a lot of problems and makes so many entries that it makes the Establishment Means/Place list really unwieldy. This may have been what happened in your situations. So, u…

Thanks for that technical tip @cthawley . Yes seems that’s an option that only curators have. So i flag the taxon for an curators intervention then?

See a fairly detailed discussion of this topic here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/any-way-to-bulk-edit-native-introduced-status-for-a-species/677 (includes links to a related feature request).

Flagged: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/867073/flags

How to fix status "Establishment means" given the proliferation of checklists?

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How to fix status "Establishment means" given the proliferation of checklists?

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