With over 125 million observations, iNaturalist – a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society – is one of the world’s largest online platforms and communities for sharing and discussing nature observations. Learn the iNaturalist basics like how to make and identify observations, see what others are seeing, and how observations have been used by researchers. See why the New York Times calls this “The Nicest Place Online…As civil discourse online and off increasingly proves elusive, a website devoted to identifying plants and animals may be teaching humans how to get along.”