The “Red List Invertebrates Wanted” campaign is launched on June 5, World Environment Day, in which its promoters call on citizens to “help to better understand the distribution of 16 emblematic invertebrate species, contributing to the process of assessing the risk of extinction of these species'.
Within the scope of this citizen science campaign, launched by the Red List of Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrates of Continental Portugal project team, interested citizens are urged to help map the distribution of 16 species of invertebrates, contributing to the preparation of the first Red List of Invertebrates from Mainland Portugal.
"The data reported by citizens will help researchers to assess the risk of extinction of these species in the country", explain the promoters.
Citizens are invited to register with the Biodiversity4all platform their observations, made in mainland Portugal, of invertebrate species listed in the annexes of the Habitats Directive, as well as other target species.
Species to be recorded include insects, spiders, snails, slugs, river mussels, crustaceans and leeches.
The Red List of Invertebrates project is financed by POSEUR – Operational Program for Sustainability and Efficiency in the Use of Resources and by the Environmental Fund, and its beneficiary is the Association for Research and Development of Science – FCiências.ID, and is coordinated by researchers from cE3c – Center of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and has ICNF as a partner.
Get more information about the campaign by clicking here.
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