iNaturalist Australia

Brief description

iNaturalist provides a place to record and organize nature findings, meet other nature enthusiasts, and learn about the natural world. It encourages the participation of a wide variety of nature enthusiasts, including, but not exclusive to, hikers, hunters, birders, beach combers, mushroom foragers, park rangers, ecologists, and fishermen. Through connecting these different perceptions and expertise of the natural world, iNaturalist hopes to create extensive community awareness of local biodiversity and promote further exploration of local environments. iNaturalist is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit based in the United States (EIN 92-1296468). iNaturalist Australia is the product of a membership agreement between the iNaturalist Network and the Atlas of Living Australia and CSIRO. This data is refreshed every week via a full Darwin Core archive exported from iNaturalist. The export includes all verifiable observations (both research grade and needs ID) that are published under one of the following licenses or their equivalent: 1) http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/, 2) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, 3) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ iNaturalist observations achieve research grade when 1) the iNaturalist community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing" identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the observer's ID, 2) the observation has a date,3) the observation is georeferenced, 4) the observation has a photo.