Citizen scientists help count Galapagos marine iguanas using drone images - Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
Nearly 14,000 volunteers took portion successful the national subject task Iguanas from Above, helping to number endangered Galapagos marine iguanas done an online survey—and successful doing so, contributed to the preservation of this unsocial lizard species. Every aerial representation of the iguana colonies captured by drones was reviewed by astatine slightest 20 autarkic participants—a full of much than 1.3 cardinal inputs, explains run person Dr. Amy MacLeod from Leipzig University's Institute of Biology.