Conservation science – Citizen Science Today

NTFP harvesters as citizen scientists: Validating traditional and crowdsourced knowledge on seed production of Brazil nut trees in the Peruvian Amazon

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:00:44 +0000

Abstract: Understanding the factors that underlie the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), as well as regularly monitoring production levels, are key to allow sustainability assessments of NTFP extractive economies. Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) seed harvesting from natural forests is one of the cornerstone NTFP economies in Amazonia. In the Peruvian Amazon it is...

Scientific crowdsourcing in wildlife research and conservation: Tigers (Panthera tigris) as a case study

Özgün Emre Can, Neil D’Cruze, Margaret Balaskas, and David W. Macdonald — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:00:42 +0000

Abstract: With around 3,200 tigers (Panthera tigris) left in the wild, the governments of 13 tiger range countries recently declared that there is a need for innovation to aid tiger research and conservation. In response to this call, we created the “Think for Tigers” study to explore whether crowdsourcing has the potential to innovate the...