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by MattBlissett 2769 days ago
I feel the article would benefit from pictures of wild wombat droppings in their natural state.

Fortunately, we have a few on the Vombatus ursinus page [1]. (I work at GBIF.)

> Wombats are in trouble.

It's not direct help as such, but better data can show if the real help is really helping. The nicest poo picture is [2], which is from the iNaturalist project[3], where non-biologists can submit observations of wildlife. Other wombat observations are from Questagame [4], an Australian app which gamifies observing wildlife.

The data can then be used by biologists to inform their analysis. For example, here [5] are all 69,776 records of wombats we have in TSV format.

[1] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2440301

[2] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1841291586

[3] https://www.iNaturalist.org/

[4] https://questagame.com/

[5] https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0006766-18110811510...

(Edit: I should add we're looking for an additional developer, see the gbif.org homepage.)