{"id":8467,"date":"2020-09-24T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:26:44","slug":"canadians-contribute-millions-of-observations-for-a-new-50-million-global-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/canadians-contribute-millions-of-observations-for-a-new-50-million-global-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Contribute Millions of Observations for a New 50 Million Global Record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 20, 2020, iNaturalist has more than <strong>50 million records of wild biodiversity<\/strong> with photos or sounds, which allowed verification by the iNaturalist community \u2014 Canada contributing almost four million to that total.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/50M-Network-Member-Canada.png\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, despite a pandemic and numerous natural disasters, the resilient iNaturalist community continues to forge new connections and discoveries. It has been just 13 months since we passed 25 million observations\u2014continuing iNaturalist\u2019s trend of roughly doubling the number of observations and participants each year since 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Imagine <a rel=\"nofollow\">50 million observations<\/a> are represented by <a rel=\"nofollow\">200 dots<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8468\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8468 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-1100x58.png\" alt=\"inat\" width=\"1100\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-1100x58.png 1100w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-640x34.png 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-768x41.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-1536x81.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-2048x108.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-1920x101.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2290-original-530x28.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">123 of the 200 dots are of plants and insects. Fish are represented by just 2 dots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>How many dots from each <a rel=\"nofollow\">species category<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 4223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.inaturalist.org\/wiki_page_attachments\/2289-original.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4223\" height=\"834\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">133 of the 200 dots are from in North America. Africa and South America have the fewest dots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>How many dots are from each <a rel=\"nofollow\">continent<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.inaturalist.org\/wiki_page_attachments\/2288-original.png\" width=\"895\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/blog\/40699-50-million-observations-on-inaturalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Check out the breakdown on the iNaturalist.org blog<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">As of September 20, 2020, iNaturalist has more than 50 million records of wild biodiversity with photos or sounds, which allowed verification by the iNaturalist community \u2014 Canada contributing almost&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[598],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","tag-inaturalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}