Project Noah

Have you come across Project Noah yet?  I stumbled across it just a few days ago.

It’s billed as ‘a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere’.  

The idea is that people across the world post photographs of flora and fauna on the Project Noah website, thus creating a massive database that scientists can draw on for research purposes.  It’s also a great way of getting help with identifying anything you can’t put a name to.  Just post a picture and someone will have the answer.

I love the concept.  It’s another example of the way in which the internet enables everyone to matter.  Your observations and mine can become part of any number of scientific enquiries.   And it gives another valuable as well as fun purpose to exploring your local landscape.