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About Us

Welcome to Wildlife Sightings

Our goals are to educate people of the biodiversity around them and to document useful data (nature sightings) to aid conservation efforts, contribute to citizen science and to encourage people to enjoy nature. It's hard to conserve and protect something which is undocumented in a region. Contribute sightings and help document species in a region before they are threatened !

Promote your nature club, organization, business and school class. Use our free services to collect and organize sighting data so you can focus on what you do best, leave the technical aspects of data manaegment and publication to us. Don't let your useful data gather dust, publish it here ! Website owners can also embed their sightings using an iframe or xml parser. Click here and view a sample user page/nature club, school class, conservation/citizen science organization, BioBlitz group and eco tourism business.

This website was inspired by a project that occurred in Nova Scotia, Canada from 1900-1923, when a school superintendent started a project called 'The Thousand Eyes project', in which students from across the province gathered wildlife sighting data for the next 23 years, producing a great deal of wildlife sightings which is valueable to this day ! Our webpage address was derived from an acronym JUNP, standing for 'Journal of the UNPublished', as we strive to publish and organize data citizens normally collect for fun but do not make available to the public despite it's tremendous value.

News and Events

February 2012 - Administer Group Accounts: Organizations can now engage group members by managing multiple users working on their own wildlife survey.
October 2011 - Wildlife Sightings joins the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org)
July 2011 - XML feed for every users sightings
May 2011 - RSS feed for every users sightings
April 2011 - iframe added for users to display their sightings on their own website
March 2011 - Genus, Family and Order added to reporting fields
October 2010 - Earliest and latest sighting date added to reports
July 2010 - Wildlife naming categorization added
June 2010 - New website layout and organization
August 2009 - Editing feature added to users sighting submissions
July 2009 - Google maps added to sighting data
July 2009 - Time series reports for sighting data available
April 2009 - JUNPonline.com goes live

Partners, Media & Resources

We are always interested in hearing from potential partners and developing new affiliations to improve our service, contact us with your ideas. We also welcome all questions from the media for news reports. Our resources page provides many useful sites on education and classifications of sightings.

Feedback

We are a new website and want to hear your feedback. Your input will shape our developement. Let us know what you would like to see here !

Standardizing data entry is a challenge which we especially want your input for. This will better enable people to search and understand the findings presented here. Email us suggestions for standard data fields you would like to see for your finding.

FAQ

Q. How do I submit a wildlife or plant sighting?
A. Register an account then login. You may then submit sightings and contribute to our community database.

Q. What information is required to submit a sighting?
A. The name of the wildlife or plant, date sighted and location. Other information is optional, like a photo, site description, lat/long, comment etc.

Q. Who's photos can I upload?
A. You may only upload photos that you own. You may include a watermark credit on each image of your business and website. You cannot upload photos that you do not own or have rights to do so with.

Q. How do I update my account details?
A. Login and click your username link in the upper righthand corner of the webpage. View this page for more instructions.