Crowdsourcing can help us understand how communities are impacted by climate change.

Can we help wildlife adapt by crowdsourcing human responses to climate change? | Magazine Articles

Crowdsourcing can help us understand how communities are impacted by climate change.

Not long after Nikhil Advani joined WWF in 2013, he made an intriguing discovery. Advani, whose work focuses on climate change adaptation, was assessing the vulnerability of various species to the changing planet. “I quickly realized,” he says, “that for a lot of the species that WWF works on—like elephants, mountain gorillas, and snow leopards—the biggest climate-driven threats are likely to come from human communities affected by changes in weather and climate.” His realization led to the launch of Climate Crowd, an online platform for crowdsourcing data about two key topics: learning how rural and indigenous communities around the world are responding to climate change, and how their responses are affecting biodiversity. (The latter topic, Advani says, is something we know very little about yet.) For example, if community members enter protected areas to collect water d...

Full article: https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/summer-2017...

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