22 Nov 2018

Sharing Kiwi biodiversity online

From Afternoons, 1:32 pm on 22 November 2018

Citizen science is all about the general public helping professionals gather data about the natural world. 

Stay-at-home mum Siobhan Leachman contributes to by collating and then uploading information about Kiwi flora and fauna to the internet. 

Her current obsession is on New Zealand's plethora of endemic moths. She tells us how editing Wikipedia pages has become a useful resource.

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