If you're a nature-lover with an observant eye, or a camera, or both, you could actively contribute to research on the distribution of plants and animals in southern Africa.
If you're a nature-lover with an observant eye, or a camera, or both, you could actively contribute to research on the distribution of plants and animals in southern Africa.
Rhodes University's Botany department will host the UCT Animal Demography Unit's next Citizen Scientist afternoon on Wednesday 28 January at 2pm in the Botany Major lecture theatre.
This series of short informative talks is aimed at keen naturalists to show how their field observations and photographs can contribute to larger research projects on the distribution and biology of a large number of organisms.
These can include orchids, trees, birds and mammals with butterflies, scorpions, frogs and many others in between.
The free talks will not only showcase how easy it is to contribute photographs and data to the Virtual Museum, but also some of the ways that the vast amounts of data that have been collected are being used to understand this distribution of plants and animals in southern Africa.
Register at www.adu.org.za/workshop_registration.php. Illustration from A naturalist on the prowl: Or, In the jungle by Edward Hamilton 'Eha' Aitken (1851-1909). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
