Hikers can help monitor and create map about how well the environment is doing
Monitoring the environment
Illustration and text Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org
Hiking trails can be great places to monitor the environment from. Often hikers will be the first to spot dead animals, climate change effects, invasive species, road kills, pollution, plastic dumping or other environmental threats
Keywords: citizen science, citizen science, pollution, endangered species, nature, wildlife, toxic waste, plastic waste, oil pollution
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