PROGRAMS
Finding SpeciesID
Reconnecting people with the natural world, by making it easy and fun to identify species and learn more about them. Also, advancing scientific research and creating a permanent archive for humanity of the planet’s species. New electronics and digital technologies—smartphones, tablets, GPS, digital cameras, widespread internet access—have been luring adults and children into spending more time indoors and more time looking at screens. Yet these same technologies hold the capacity to lure us back outside and give us a fresh look at the natural world. Finding Species develops cutting edge methods to photo-document and inventory species. Its unique, standardized photographs capture field characters of species in a way that is beautiful and scientifically valuable. Finding Species writes profiles of species to accompany these, using non-technical terms. The photographs and texts are incorporated into new technologies as well as in print. These can give any individual—scientist, land manager, government official, school child, and naturalist—the ability to identify species and to understand the natural world to a degree unmatched at a time in human history.
Reconnecting people with the natural world, by making it easy and fun to identify species and learn more about them. Also, advancing scientific research and creating a permanent archive for humanity of the planet’s species. New electronics and digital technologies—smartphones, tablets, GPS, digital cameras, widespread internet access—have been luring adults and children into spending more time indoors and more time looking at screens. Yet these same technologies hold the capacity to lure us back outside and give us a fresh look at the natural world. Finding Species develops cutting edge methods to photo-document and inventory species. Its unique, standardized photographs capture field characters of species in a way that is beautiful and scientifically valuable. Finding Species writes profiles of species to accompany these, using non-technical terms. The photographs and texts are incorporated into new technologies as well as in print. These can give any individual—scientist, land manager, government official, school child, and naturalist—the ability to identify species and to understand the natural world to a degree unmatched at a time in human history.
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Finding SpeciesID Projects:
- Common and Conspicuous Trees of Yasuní - EoL,BioBlitz - GeckoWeb - Native Plants / Leafsnap - NBII |
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Signature Species
Protecting native, endemic, and endangered species and imperiled habitats. Finding Species brings species and places to the people and to government officials through vivid photographs, conservation action, and science. It makes the existence of the plants and animals and wilderness undeniable and uniquely compelling. It promotes sustainable alternatives to large-scale development, best practices in development, more informed political decisions, and laws that conserve wildlife and maintain its biocultural value. It also advances stakeholder involvement by engaging local communities in this work.
Protecting native, endemic, and endangered species and imperiled habitats. Finding Species brings species and places to the people and to government officials through vivid photographs, conservation action, and science. It makes the existence of the plants and animals and wilderness undeniable and uniquely compelling. It promotes sustainable alternatives to large-scale development, best practices in development, more informed political decisions, and laws that conserve wildlife and maintain its biocultural value. It also advances stakeholder involvement by engaging local communities in this work.
Signature Species projects
- Conservation of Dry Forest
- Conservation of the Andean Tapir
- Conservation of the Snakes of Ecuador
- Protection of the Long-Wattled Umbrellabird in Ecuadorian Choco
- Reconnecting Citizens with the Wildlife in Quito
- Armonia Ecuador Book
- Conservation of Dry Forest
- Conservation of the Andean Tapir
- Conservation of the Snakes of Ecuador
- Protection of the Long-Wattled Umbrellabird in Ecuadorian Choco
- Reconnecting Citizens with the Wildlife in Quito
- Armonia Ecuador Book
