GSB 2023 contributing to Threatened Species
While we understand that a proportion of observations are not of good photo quality to ascertain identification to species level, with time those keen on surveys can only improve their photography skills. We encourage our identifiers to share tips and tricks for their respective taxon groups as well as produce videos and crib notes that we share via our YouTube channel.
Our participation in GSB annually brings much fun being in nature, while feeding foundational biodiversity data to our national datasets, especially that of endemic, threatened, and protected species.
More importantly, GSB data is being analyzed by local government agencies responsible for managing and reporting on biodiversity at the municipal scale.
The South African Red List Plants and Animals Project produced 518 Threatened species
442 Plant species
32 Bird species
16 Mammal species
6 Reptile species
5 Amphibian species
6 Ray finned fish species
Arachnid species are much more difficult to ID to species level from photographs thus will take some time for the experts to provide a list of genera observed.
Note that these are records as per the South African Red List Plants and Animals Project which does not have all taxonomic groups listed.
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I found it interesting to compare our Introduced and Redlisted numbers.
For Southern Africa it shows 661 Introduced species from 5001 observations, and by now we have 521 Threatened species from just under 3000 observations. Getting rid of the one would have asuch a huge impact on the other...
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