We are a collective with a passion for nature, promoting the reuse of open media + open data on biodiversity. CC BY SA 📷 by Nick Helme • CC BY 📍 by parkjisun
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We are a group with a passion for nature. We’re aiming to encourage people and institutions to share open reusable content to document the beauty of nature and to help fill knowledge gaps in #biodiversity. #VisibleNature 1/
Some extraordinary open macro photography of fungi and slime molds of the forest floor by @inaturalist contributor alexis_orion, a young naturalist and nature photographer from Germany. All images freely reusable with attribution (CC BY): https://t.co/GxGoqchZtN
Celebrating the very first images on Wikipedia of many butterfly species from Sumatra. Thanks to @FishGuyKai for sharing them on @inaturalist under a CC-BY-SA license 🦋
1. Abisara aita https://t.co/7VYvtXaxb8
…and more are underway. Do you have good-quality photos of poorly documented endemic species from your country? Make them available under an open license and we’ll reuse them (with full credits) as the official illustration of the species on wiki. ✨
THIS THURSDAY: Don't forget our #PublicDomain VIRTUAL party! Join Internet Archive, @creativecommons and many others to celebrate the works of art & culture from 1927 that have entered the public domain. https://t.co/SY3k0EtWhz
Silverstone's Robber Frog (Pristimantis silverstonei) is a vulnerable species of frog from Colombia’s Western Andes. There are few photos of this frog in its habitat, and none is CC-licensed. Thanks to iNat contributor @gesnerio, Wikipedia now has one ✨. https://t.co/GfphbiRp03
New Wikipedia stub: Promachus consanguineus, a robber fly endemic to the Canary Islands. https://t.co/3hJ0HDehQJ
📷 CC BY SA image courtesy of @inaturalist contributor Sandy Rae. #Asilidae
Join @BirdNoteRadio, 500 Women Scientists & more for a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to make bird-related Wiki pages more accurate & representative of the community, ft @RosemaryMosco as keynote speaker! @birdability@BlackAFinSTEM @SeattleAudubon
Register today: https://t.co/q76KaeQcjy
The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻
The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻
Lipochaeta ranica—a recently described species of shore fly from California—has a new Wikipedia article, illustrated with gorgeous CC0 macro images by iNaturalist contributor Tobias Hays. https://t.co/Ac1Q0ciYs5
A female Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) with her child foraging on the hard ground at Katagamuwa Sanctuary, Sri Lanka. Photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, CC BY-SA 4.0 via @WikiLovesEarth
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