r/EndangeredSpecies Jan 20 '25

Citizen Science Looking for citizen scientists to help process our drone imagery to aid in Marine Iguana conservation

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We are Iguanasfromabove, a university research project concerned with conserving the Galapagos Marine Iguana, and we're currently looking for passionate citizen scientists to help us process our data!

Our main project goal is establishing a more accurate population census of the Galapagos Marine Iguana, to more adequately assess it's conservation risks, especially in response to more novel ecological threats like the increased severity of El Nino storms hitting the archipelago. We're currently trying to achieve this through the (already completed) use of drone imaging of the entire island chain, and the subsequent processing of said images to count the total number of marine iguanas at time of capture. And this is where you come in!

While we are planning to automate the iguana identification process in the future, we're currently still reliant on manual input to parse through our massive collection of images. Our passionate volunteers have already classified 332.248 individual images this way! However, we still have a mountain of work ahead of us, and every friendly new helping hand goes a long way to completing this phase of our project on schedule. If you're interested and would like to participate , and enjoy an areal view of Galapagos from the comfort of your own home, or just learn more about what we do, head over to our Zooniverse page here:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/andreavarela89/iguanas-from-above

Thank you for your time and attention, any questions you may have can of course also be directed at us directly on this account!


r/EndangeredSpecies 6h ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 20h ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 12m ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 17h ago

HazeHurtAnimals: if humans can barely breathe through Indonesia’s Haze, imagine what it’s doing to ORANGHUTAN 😭💔

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Imagine we with kids at home surviving this haze with my old parents! Indonesia has no common sense!


r/EndangeredSpecies 13h ago

Article Thom Balan — Artwork & Journal

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r/EndangeredSpecies 1d ago

News HazeHurtAnimals: if humans can barely breathe through Indonesia’s Haze, imagine what it’s doing to ORANGHUTAN 😭💔

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r/EndangeredSpecies 1d ago

Video HazeHurtAnimals: if humans can barely breathe through Indonesia’s Haze, imagine what it’s doing to ORANGHUTAN 😭💔

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r/EndangeredSpecies 2d ago

News How changes to Endangered Species Act regulations could hurt wildlife

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r/EndangeredSpecies 2d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 3d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 3d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 4d ago

Discussion Rare duck breeding success gives hope for species

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r/EndangeredSpecies 4d ago

Elephant rescues man from a flood in India

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r/EndangeredSpecies 5d ago

Video Elephant rescues man from a flood in India

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r/EndangeredSpecies 5d ago

Ferruginous Duck: How a Near Threatened species depends on a chain of Key Biodiversity Areas from Croatia to Egypt

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r/EndangeredSpecies 6d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 7d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 8d ago

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r/EndangeredSpecies 8d ago

Since 1970, the world has lost 30% of the entire bird population. Poachers, hunters, and illegal bird collectors, what is something everyday people can do to help mitigate the severe decline in the overal bird population?

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r/EndangeredSpecies 9d ago

Sighting Caught these endangered Lion-tailed Macaques on video in Valparai, Tamil Nadu

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Spotted this group of endangered lion-tailed macaques during a road trip through Valparai, Tamil Nadu. They’re endemic to the Western Ghats, and I was lucky to capture them in the wild.


r/EndangeredSpecies 9d ago

Education A deadly python was going to be shot until a highly skilled team stepped in! 🐍

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r/EndangeredSpecies 10d ago

News Ask your congressional rep to co-sponsor H.R. 9901: A bill that will save the Endangered Species Act’s definition of ‘Harm'

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