{"id":8347,"date":"2026-02-16T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:14:35","slug":"447-inaturalist-eyes-on-the-backlands-16feb2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"447 iNaturalist eyes on the Backlands 16Feb2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8351\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8351\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8351\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM-1024x707.png 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.33.51-PM.png 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iNaturalist map showing individual observations within the Backlands<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After Bev Wigney made a post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsforestmatters.ca\/22429-inaturalist-eyes-on-nova-scotia-16feb2026\">22,429 iNaturalist Eyes on Nova Scotia<\/a>&#8220;, I was prompted to find out how many such eyes there are on the Backlands.<\/p>\n<p>I set up an iNaturalist &#8220;Project&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/halifax-ns-backlands\">Halifax NS Backlands<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; on April 20, 2020 which collates all iNaturalist observations within the Backlands, that area defined by a map (see image at right).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project provides a running tally of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the total number of <strong>Observations<\/strong> &#8211; Observations are individual records of an observation of a particular species at a particular site within the Backlands on a specified day;<\/li>\n<li>the total number of <strong>Species<\/strong> recorded by all Observers\/All records (not all confirmed);<\/li>\n<li>the number of <strong>Identifiers<\/strong> &#8211; iNat members who check others&#8217; entries and proposed species identifications, providing some assessment, agreeing or not or suggesting an alternative ID;<\/li>\n<li>The number of <strong>Observers<\/strong> &#8211; registered members of iNaturalist (anyone can join).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Answer today for the number of Observers: 447!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8361\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8361\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8361\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-1024x444.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-1536x665.png 1536w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-16-at-6.23.32-PM-2048x887.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen Capture from the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/halifax-ns-backlands\">Halifax NS Backlands<\/a> Project Page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of Eyes on the Backlands!<\/p>\n<p>Also view <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=3892\">Projects on iNaturalist<\/a>, a page on this website, lots more stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Bev Wigney made a post &#8220;22,429 iNaturalist Eyes on Nova Scotia&#8220;, I was prompted to find out how many such eyes there are on the Backlands. I set up an iNaturalist &#8220;Project&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Halifax NS Backlands&#8221; &#8211; on April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-nature-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}