Calling all wildlife watchers!

Join the Everglades Wildlife Watch by identifying wildlife captured on trail cameras. COURTESY PHOTO

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission needs your help. It’s looking for people to analyze data about animals living in the Everglades.

The Everglades Wildlife Watch is a new Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) volunteer program that lets you help animals from the comforts of your home.

Throughout South Florida’s seventeen wildlife management/wildlife and environmental areas, volunteers are setting and maintaining trail cameras.

As those cameras collect photos, the images are uploaded to our Everglades Wildlife Watch Zooniverse project, where anyone can jump online and classify photos.

Just follow the link, Zooniverse.org/Projects/FWC/Everglades-Wildlife Watch, create a free account and start identifying the wildlife in the photos.

If you get one wrong, don’t sweat it. With consensus analysis, your identifications will be combined with others to give researchers the most accurate picture of wildlife activity in these areas.

Once photos are analyzed and the wildlife has been identified, the data is sent to area biologists so they can better manage the areas.

The results will also be uploaded to FWC’s interactive Data Dashboard, where you can see what kind of wildlife has been spotted on the cameras around the region. ¦

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