Studying and protecting each and every living species on Earth is a major challenge of the
21st century. Yet, most species remain unknown or unstudied, while others attract most of …

Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-
reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United …

Research taking place at the intersection of conservation and citizen science holds great
potential for advancing both fields as well as for addressing grand challenges in the field of …

Lucanus cervus is one of the most charismatic saproxylic beetles, widely distributed in
Europe. The species is typical of mature deciduous forests, especially oak woodlands. Loss …

EU biodiversity conservation policy is based on the Habitats Directive (92/43/EC), which
aims that habitat types and species of Community interest should reach 'favourable …

Volunteer divers participating in the Reef Life Survey (RLS) program actively assist species
conservation efforts by generating data for threat assessments and population trend …

The implementation of conservation actions requires a reliable assessment of presence
and/or abundance of targeted species. This is particularly difficult for rare and elusive …

It is a well-known matter-of-fact that a huge number of animal diversity on Earth, estimated
by most zoologists around 3 to 5 million species at least, still needs to be discovered …

Citizen science, the engagement of people in a research project, has grown rapidly in recent
years, also for mapping of species of conservation interest. The Life Project “Monitoring …

The Life Project “Monitoring of insects with public participation”(LIFE11 NAT/IT/000252) had
as the main objective to develop and test methods for the monitoring of five beetle species …