3,000,000 Observers!
This week, we achieved a significant milestone on iNaturalist: passing 3 million observers!
A crucial 5%
While it might not appear so at first glance, the observer community on iNaturalist actually represents a small percentage of the total audience. For instance, this March, approximately 4.5 million people visited the iNaturalist website or used the iNaturalist or Seek mobile apps. Out of these, 600k (13%) had iNaturalist accounts, and only 245k people (~5%) posted observations.
Mapping observers
The maps show the location of first observations for a sample of about 15% of all observers around the globe. About 60% of all observers are in North America. In contrast, South America has about 6% of all observers.
Europe has the second largest number of observers followed by Asia. Africa has the least number of observers of any continent except Antarctica with most observers in the southern part of the continent.
Outsized Oceania
With an area of around 8.5M square kilometers, Oceania is the smallest continent. But it has an outsized number of observers thanks to the active observer communities in Australia and New Zealand.
Thank you!
If you're one of these 3 million observers, thank you for helping us reach this milestone! And if you'd like to join the even smaller, crucial group of iNaturalist supporters (0.05%), you can become one by clicking the link below!
Comments
Well, it looks like I'll be the first to say CONGRATULATIONS to this outstanding achievement! iNaturalist has been a significant part of my life for 3 years, and I will continue to do my part by adding observations, learning from others, and maybe help educate a few along the way. I am thrilled to be part of the 3,000,000!
Congratulations iNaturalist.
There is a project collating African country contributions: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversity-of-africa
So half (58%) of all African contributors are from South Africa, and 63% from southern Africa.
We need an Africa outreach programme!
However, we need to remember that tourists contribute a substantial proportion to the observations in some regions. I imagine that North America and Europe will contain a far higher proportion of observers if ecotourists were excluded. Elephants remain the number 1 observed species for Africa (with 13k observations), despite it being low on the priority list for locals.
Congratulations, iNataurlist, to the community and all the users! I'm very excited for this mileston :D
Congratulations, iNataurlist, to the community and all the users!
How amazing!! Congratulations to iNat, and I think we all oughtta give ourselves a pat on the back too!!!
Congratulations to iNat and to observers from France !
Cool to see where Iceland stands in observation density.
But it is on the wrong map! :)
Would be curious to know which country has the most observers/observations per capita.
Wow! 1 in 2700 people have uploaded an observation. An amazing milestone.
Congratulations iNat for striking the record of 3mil observers! And thanks for guiding me into an extraordinary living world beyond I 'normally' lived.
This is great to see! Well done everyone, especially the iNat staff, sine qua non!
And everyone please think about becoming a supporter, especially a monthly supporter -- every little bit helps.
It is so wonderful to see iNaturalist growing so well. It's been an important part of my life for five years now and making identifications for others is one way I try to give back.
The most worthwhile thing on the internet! Thanks for keeping her up and running, iNat.
Felicidades a todos los participantes!!!
Nos toca seguir trabajando para que la comunidad crezca en sitios com menos oportunidades, construir una comunidad y mantenerla no es tarea facil, y se requiere de una labor continua, gracias a todos los que dia a dia hace esta red posible!
Abrazo a todos!
Congrats.
What fantastic and interesting maps!
Congrats...and I second @susanhewitt's invite to everyone to become a monthly supporter at any level. iNat and the hard-working staff deserve our everlasting Thanks and continued support.
Forever grateful for this incredible platform! Congrats iNaturalist!
Felicitaciones a todo Inaturalist; realmente es un gran logro.
Es muy gratificante haber aportado a estos 3.000.000.
Seguiremos contribuyendo humildemente para seguir creciendo.
Entiendo que lo que nos une en esta comunidad es la pasión por conocer,difundir y esencialmente bregar por la conservación de toda la vida que cobija esta casa que llamamos Planeta Tierra.
A seguir trabajando. Gracias a todos.
This is amazing! An incredible achievement for inat!
Congrats to the whole iNat team, yet another grand achievement!
You said it! 😁
What a great achievement!
I congratulate and thank the Inat team for supporting this large number of members.
Inat, building a great nation occupied with the interrelation with its natural environment.
@sbushes As you point out, based on the above map, Iceland is now officially part of North America. I'll notify the E.U. and United Nations later today. ;-)
What would be interesting is the number of observers active in the past year/this year.
@robertarcher397 you can see it on the statistics' page and year in review, though for the whole world together.
Amazing achievement! Congrats and thank you for beingan important part of my life. One question for clarification.. observers can be counted for different continent, right? So when I have observed in Europe, South America and Africa, I will be a datapoint for each of those continents, right?
@ajott not here, they took only 1st observations.
Ah yes, forgot that I read that.. thanks for clarification. So I am not a South American dot then 😉
Fico feliz pelo site e muito empolgado de tentar cada vez mais conseguir contribuir com a ciência cidadã e trazer mais adeptos brasileiros.
Wow…
What a Stunning number
This is Ahmad Suhail Director Zamurd Futuristics Pvt Ltd Himalayan Herbs from Kokernag Anantnag Kashmir India proudly lauring the iNaturalist Platform where like minded Naturalists can be part and parcel of the world's Biodiversity from the places they are habitats of almost every nook and corner
This is Ahmad Suhail Director Zamurd Futuristics Pvt Ltd Himalayan Herbs from Kokernag Anantnag Kashmir India proudly lauring the iNaturalist Platform where like minded Naturalists can be part and parcel of the world's Biodiversity from the places they are habitats of almost every nook and corner
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