The Daily Telegraph - 22.08.2019

Weather and crosswords

App lets children

scan for wildlife

WWF has unveiled a child-friendly

app to inspire the next generation of

naturalists by asking them to build a

UK-wide picture of biodiversity.

“Seek”, launched in collaboration

with iNaturalist and Our Planet, a

Netflix series, is designed to encourage

young people to connect with the

natural world on their doorstep.

Users scan the environment with

their smartphone camera and the app

then applies image recognition

technology to identify organisms and

plants, drawing from millions of

wildlife observations, and reveals the

insects, birds, plants and amphibians

that have been recorded nearby.

The app also challenges children to

find and identify new animal species,

plants and fungi, rewarding them with

discovery badges. Findings can be

submitted to iNaturalist, which

gathers observations from around the

world to map biodiversity.

Samantha Herbert

Nature notes

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