Below is a list of some of the citizen science projects open to participants in Africa. Click on the project name to learn more.
- Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW) project: Help in monitoring South Africa’s threatened native plants.
- iSpot: Submit photo observations of plants as animals as out of individual curiosity or in participation of a specific regional project.
- MyBirdPatch: Contribute your sightings of birds throughout Africa to a collective database to help increase knowledge of bird distribution.
- Spring Alive: Created for students, teachers, or adult participants to record their first sighting of five bird species each spring.
- Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP): Open to participants throughout southern Africa to record data on the birds that they see.
This list is updated periodically. Do you know of an additional citizen science project that should be added to this list? If so, please comment below.
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