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"iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society."

It makes me pretty happy that this is not a VC-backed startup.

When someone recommended it to me last summer, I was hesitant to be yet another content creator for yet another platform. Then I saw it was run by science foundations! Signed up immediately. It’s been fun in Colorado to learn plants that I see on hikes.

The data is uploaded to gbif[0]. Where you can download it for free!

0. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...

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