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06-11-2023, 01:59 PM
Shabana Begum
PUBLISHED 8 HOURS AGO
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The number of citizen scientists working on different types of fauna in Singapore has grown from 400 in 2015 to over 11,000 in 2023, said NParks. It runs a programme called Community in Nature (CIN) Biodiversity Watch, where members of the public and students join large-scale biodiversity surveys.
“Community scientists tend to go to more different places that professional scientists don’t go to. They go there a lot to monitor and observe, and fill in a lot of data points,” said Assistant Professor John Ascher, an entomologist specialising in bees and wasps from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences.
There are about 140 species of bees in Singapore.
Much of citizen scientists’ bee and wasp sightings are logged in iNaturalist, the online database for documenting flora and fauna.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/c...ch-in-asia
PUBLISHED 8 HOURS AGO
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The number of citizen scientists working on different types of fauna in Singapore has grown from 400 in 2015 to over 11,000 in 2023, said NParks. It runs a programme called Community in Nature (CIN) Biodiversity Watch, where members of the public and students join large-scale biodiversity surveys.
“Community scientists tend to go to more different places that professional scientists don’t go to. They go there a lot to monitor and observe, and fill in a lot of data points,” said Assistant Professor John Ascher, an entomologist specialising in bees and wasps from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences.
There are about 140 species of bees in Singapore.
Much of citizen scientists’ bee and wasp sightings are logged in iNaturalist, the online database for documenting flora and fauna.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/c...ch-in-asia
