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Observations can be added offline and synced when a smartphone reaches an area with WiFi or mobile internet. This illustrates how you can add additional information and data to your observation, it also gives you the option to obscure the co-ordinates of the observation. This could be important for rare or endangered species, such the Rhino, which are under threat from hunters. For community-based forest monitoring, this would allow communities to hide location information of commercially valuable timber species.

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iNaturalist’s unique selling point is its connection with a large volunteer group of amateur and professional taxonomists and scientific experts who can add value to each observation made by verifying and refining where necessary species identification. On your phone, you are able to visualise observations of species by other users, but not analyse results

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User guides are available offline on the iphone to identify species, and online on the android platform.

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