I absolutely LOVE iNaturalist, it is my favorite way to document and identify fungi and all other living organisms. It is a fantastic way to connect with nature and a worldwide community of experts.
In honor of National Mushroom Month (September) and National Mushroom Day (October 15th) please consider donating to iNaturalist to help support this amazing community resource.
Bleeding Tooth Fungus (Hydnellum peckii) I found this bucket list mushroom thanks to iNaturalist!
What is iNaturalist?
iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature.
It is a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users.
Why iNaturalist?
Vision iNaturalist's vision is a world where everyone can understand and sustain biodiversity through the practice of observing wild organisms and sharing information about them.
Mission iNaturalist’s mission is to build a global community of 100 million naturalists by 2030 in order to connect people to nature and advance biodiversity science and conservation.
iNaturalist is working to achieve this mission by improving iNaturalist as a social network for engaging the public with nature, generating high quality biodiversity data, and synthesizing that data into tools such as the computer vision model that help the iNaturalist community do their work.
iNaturalist is one of the world’s largest communities dedicated to biodiversity. It's free to use, but needs your support to keep it going.
This global community of nature lovers shares knowledge and generates irreplaceable biodiversity data. Please consider a one-time or recurring gift to keep it thriving for years to come. Here's what your gift can do: $13 stores 10,000 photos for a year; $33 sends one day of email updates; $150 supports the iNat Forum for a month; $500 runs the servers for 24 hours. The future of iNaturalist is in your hands.
Can you chip in?
iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. All donations will be received by the California Academy of Sciences, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt not-for-profit organization based on the United States of America.
No goods or services are received in exchange for your contribution, making your gift fully tax-deductible as allowed by law. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal Identification Number for iNaturalist is 92-1296468.
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