Why do we have observations of "Human"?

[tiwane]

@oxalismtp

I have also seen it used to log examples of garbage left behind at a site. That data could be used to improve outreach or policies at a particular park or site in order to help reduce such incidents. So long as it is marked as Human, and ideally, a note is made to indicate why they are posting it, that seems a reasonable use of iNat.

Please don’t use iNaturalist for this purpose, at least not regularly. There are other apps/platforms designed for this, like https://www.litterati.org/ and http://marinedebris.engr.uga.edu/

@calebcam

We have a lot of data about humans. We have over 40,000 observations now - the CIA might be interested. Maybe we should start obscuring Humans until they pay us :-)

Theoretically, all observations on iNaturalist (aside from trail cams and some other exceptions) are observations of humans as well. So there’s a lot more than 40k. ;-)