Citizens indispensable in modern biodiversity protection

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Biodiversity protection While Water Research Commission (WRC)funded research projects are typically undertaken by highly qualified experts, the contribution of ordinary citizens to scientific endeavours should not be overlooked. Sue Matthews looks at this increasing trend. explains ADU Director, Prof Les Underhill, on the unit’s website www. adu.org.za. “The ADU’s mission is to fit together all the puzzle pieces, so that we can map South Africa’s biodiversity through time. We turn the myriad bits of raw data into the kind of information that conservation decisions can be based on. ” Here we profile a few of the ways in which citizen scientists are involved in data collection for waterrelated programmes.

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