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Re:The Silence of the Bugs by simopaa on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:51AM (#17165824)
What could tech do to make solving this problem easier? I stumbled on iNaturalist [1], a crowd-sourced platform for doing species identifications that is also (at least partly) open source [2]. What other tools could we either utilize more efficiently of create if they don't yet exist?

[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/ [2] https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist

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Re:The Silence of the Bugs by briga on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:41AM (#17165937)
I'm not sure species identification is the issue here. It doesn't matter if 100 species are at risk or 100,000, I think most people still aren't too concerned about the environment.

Maybe for anything to get done there has to be some immediate economic benefit to the person doing the preservation. But at this point I'm not sure what that would be, or who would fund it.

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