Flowering plants of Turkey's Journal

Journal archives for August 2019

August 19, 2019

Reaching out through Facebook - translation?

The "iNaturalist world tour" visited Turkey this week, and someone shared there a link to the 'Flora' group on Facebook, where people share identifications of wild plants.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/106515485317

Can anyone volunteer to translate a short message into Turkish to invite people to participate in this iNaturalist project?

Here is an example message:

NatureMap-plants is a citizen science project aimed at improving our knowledge of flowering plant species distribution in four countries - Indonesia, India, Ethiopia and Turkey - that are extremely rich in plant species. Currently, these countries have insufficient plant observation data available to be able to identify areas of high plant species richness and to ensure that threatened plants are sufficiently protected to avoid their extinction. You can help by adding observations of flowering plants to iNaturalist, and by helping to identify plants that have already been added. We especially need more identifiers willing to share their knowledge!

For a guide to identifying (in English), please see http://bit.ly/iNatid
For a guide to adding observations (in English), please see http://bit.ly/iNatadd

Many thanks to anyone who can help!

Posted on August 19, 2019 06:10 PM by lera lera | 7 comments | Leave a comment

August 21, 2019

10,000 OBSERVATIONS!!!

we reached 10,000 flowering plants observations in Turkey on I-Naturalist! Since mid-May, when the collection project started, we have added over 3200 new observation of flowering plants for Turkey on ID, 1000 of which identified to the species level! Many more identifications of older observations are happening.
Very soon, a group of botanists around the world will be able to use this data to map the distribution of species for which this information currently does not exist, and will use this information to identify hotspots of conservation priorities for plants.

thank you everyone for the great effort!
Piero

Posted on August 21, 2019 02:53 PM by pierov pierov | 1 comment | Leave a comment