iNaturalist

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs iNaturalist

iNaturalist inaturalist.org

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

Wikidata: citizen science project and website

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What iNaturalist tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

20 of the 60 sites closest to iNaturalist match.

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   Observation.org observation.org English No trackers

   Checking if you are not a bot

   Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring

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   ebird.org English No trackers

   Making sure you're not a bot!

   eBird transforms your bird sightings into science and conservation. Plan trips, find birds, track your lists, explore range maps and bird migration—all free.

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   plantnet.org English 1 tracker

   Home - Pl@ntNet

   With the Pl@ntNet app, identify one plant from a picture, and be part of a citizen science project on plant biodiversity

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   Ipbes ipbes.net English 2 trackers

   IPBES Home page | IPBES secretariat

   The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is the intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services.

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   Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

   Privacy Guides

   Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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   DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

   DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

   international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

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   AAAS aaas.org English 2 trackers

   AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

   international non-profit organization promoting science

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   IUCN iucn.org English 1 tracker

   IUCN

   international organization

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   NORC at the University of Chicago norc.org English 2 trackers

   NORC at the University of Chicago | Research You Can Trust

   NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, nonpartisan research organization that delivers insights and analysis decision-makers trust.

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    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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    Gapminder gapminder.org English 1 tracker

    Gapminder

    Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)

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    inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    French research institution in computer science

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    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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    explore explore.org English 2 trackers

    Home | Explore.org

    Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity and inspire lifelong learning. Watch nature unfold live right now!

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    Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Crossref

    Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

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    National Academies nationalacademies.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

    Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

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    SINTEF sintef.no English 1 tracker

    SINTEF - Applied research, technology and innovation

    SINTEF is one of Europe's largest independent research organisations. Every year we carry out several thousand projects for customers large and small.

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    Inrae inrae.fr English 2 trackers

    INRAE: research for Agriculture, Food and Environment

    INRAE is a public research institute working for the coherent and sustainable development of agriculture, food and the environment.

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    CGIAR cgiar.org English 1 tracker

    CGIAR: Science for Humanity's Greatest Challenges | CGIAR System

    organization

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    Greenpeace greenpeace.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Greenpeace

    Greenpeace

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what iNaturalist adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.