Jonathan Kolby contacted me regarding a new salamander disease that is quickly spreading around the world and he's using iNat data to figure out where it's going. If you find a sick salamander in the wild, please take pictures and upload them to his project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/saving-salamanders-with-citizen-science
The emerging infectious disease he is specifically worried about is caused by a species of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or "Bsal") and the faster they can detect its spread into a new region, the greater hope there is to protect salamanders from disease, decline, and extinction.
Here's his video:
https://youtu.be/X6Pr8hzkiEE
I've given him links to our projects to peruse.
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