Observation.org

Description

Observation.org is a citizen science organization collecting and presenting international plant, animal and other nature observations. The aim of Observation.org is to provide an up to date insight into biodiversity. For this purpose observations are collected from thousands of amateur and professional nature lovers. The observations concern all living species but mainly consist of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, butterflies, dragonflies, other arthropods, fish, mollusks, fungi, mosses / lichens and other plants. Observational records can be enhanced with pictures and / or sounds that are linked to the primary observations. All records were validated based on evidence and expert opinion or by server processes . Evidence mainly consists of imagery evidence (photos, drawings, sonograms,...), audio recordings and material evidence (ex. herbarium specimen). Our fully automatic recognition system NIA (https://forum.waarneming.nl/index.php/topic,472379.0.html) supports users in identifying species. Most of the observations presented on Observation.org are open to the public. In order to prevent poaching or damage to rare species, detailed location information is sometimes obscured or observations are placed under embargo. Observation.org started out as the work of a small group of volunteers but has grown into a very successful organization generating millions of species observations each year. The database consists of over 110.000.000 observations in 2020. In several European countries local versions of Observation.org provide the main source of nature information.

Contacts

Observation.org
PO Box 41139
Groningen
9701CC
Groningen
NL
email: info@observation.org