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Category: Citizen scientist profile

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Biodiversity enthusiast! ….The BDI interviews citizen scientist Lucky Okpanachi Atabo

Posted on 07/07/2021 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Please tell us a bit about yourself, your background and what you do: My name is Lucky Okpanachi Atabo. I am a young Nigerian and an active volunteer and advoca...

Archive/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/News/Virtual Museum

BioMAPping in Lockdown – Rick Nuttall shares his experience

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Please tell us a bit about yourself, and why do you love biomapping? A keen birder since a young age, my passion led me to study ornithology. Following a career...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP

Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun

Posted on 28/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami

Posted on 16/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami is a lecturer at the Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management at Osun State University in Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also busy with...

Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Always on the move… BDI interviews citizen scientist Joan Young

Posted on 13/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

“I have spent nearly 40 years living and working in the bush, loving every minute of every day. When I started with macro photography, I discovered a whol...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts

Posted on 05/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Luelle Watts is an amazing woman and LepiMAPper extraordinaire. She has snapped and mapped 1632 LepiMAP records to date, all while training for South AfricaR...

Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Africa is home… BDI interviews citizen scientist Chris Meyer

Posted on 19/07/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

How did you become a citizen scientist? What was the catalyst that got you going? Having spent my early years growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe, then spending ma...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/News/OdonataMAP

Passionate about Nigerian birds and butterflies… BDI interviews citizen scientist Abubakar S. Ringim

Posted on 15/07/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Abubakar Surajo Ringim obtained his MSc in Conservation Biology from the University of Dar es Salaam. He is a keen bird atlaser and BioMAPper and he is actively...

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Turner of chaos into order … BDI interviews citizen scientist Bernardine Altenroxel

Posted on 04/10/2018 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Bernardine Altenroxel has recently graduated cum laude with a BSc(Hons) in Geography from the University of South Africa (UNISA). So, with her studies behind he...

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No citizen science, no future … BDI interviews Tony Archer

Posted on 04/07/2018 by admin

BDI travels to Klerksdorp to talk to an outstanding citizen scientist, Tony Archer. Tony has been involved with the second bird atlas since it started, and it i...

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