Finding SpeciesID

Reconnecting people with the natural world, by making it easy and fun to identify species and learn more about them. Also, advancing scientific research and creating a permanent archive for humanity of the planet’s species. New electronics and digital technologies—smartphones, tablets, GPS, digital cameras, widespread internet access—have been luring adults and children into spending more time indoors and more time looking at screens. Yet these same technologies hold the capacity to lure us back outside and give us a fresh look at the natural world. Finding Species develops cutting edge methods to photo-document and inventory species. Its unique, standardized photographs capture field characters of species in a way that is beautiful and scientifically valuable. Finding Species writes profiles of species to accompany these, using non-technical terms. The photographs and texts are incorporated into new technologies as well as in print. These can give any individual—scientist, land manager, government official, school child, and naturalist—the ability to identify species and to understand the natural world to a degree unmatched at a time in human history.

Finding SpeciesID Projects:

Signature Species

Protecting native, endemic, and endangered species and imperiled habitats. Finding Species brings species and places to the people and to government officials through vivid photographs, conservation action, and science. It makes the existence of the plants and animals and wilderness undeniable and uniquely compelling. It promotes sustainable alternatives to large-scale development, best practices in development, more informed political decisions, and laws that conserve wildlife and maintain its biocultural value. It also advances stakeholder involvement by engaging local communities in this work.

Signature Species projects

- Conservation of The Dry Forest

- Conservation of the Andean Tapir

- Conservation of the Snakes of Ecuador

- Protection of the Long-Wattled Umbrellabird in Ecuadorian Choco

- Reconnecting Citizens with the Wildlife in Quito

- Armonia Ecuador Book

                                                                                             

 

Faces of Sustainable Development and Climate Change

Engaging governments and communities in real sustainable solutions to global climate change and other issues regarding human wellbeing. Finding Species, through its photographic outreach and scientific research collaborations, has been challenging the status quo of the petroleum industry. Large-scale development of the Western Amazon through new oil access roads, pipelines, and infrastructure are leading to forest fragmentation, deforestation, and contamination of waterways. Finding Species has also been taking on issues of misuse of freshwater, and the cascade of effects including loss of freshwater habitats and species and loss of water supplies for towns and cities. By providing information and images to make these realities undeniable to politicians and industrialists, Finding Species seeks to change development trajectories. In this work, Finding Species is teaming up with legal experts, scientists, and national, regional, and local government agencies.

Sustainable Development & Climate Change Projects:

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