Saw this recently on Instagram...Habitat Destruction from iNatters?

As was noted earlier in the thread, there’s a process in place for this: flag the taxon in question and say where you think it should be obscured and why it should be obscured. As far as I can tell, that didn’t happen for the taxa brought up here.

That being said, we as a team been discussing how to create a policy for these kinds of situations, where the taxon is not listed by any authority and may not be under overall population pressure but is subject to habitat destruction by living in fragile habitats and being “overly loved”. Unfortunately it’s not particularly straightforward because so much of it is subjective - how to decide what gets obscured and what doesn’t, and what evidence do you rely on? If more things are obscured, who gets access to these locations so that they can be used for conservation purposes like stopping development of the species’ habitat?

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Thanks! I’ll reach out to them. Hope the policy changes work out!

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