Geo-Wiki Human Impact on Forest Campaign

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Aim:

The "Human Impact on Forests" campaign aims to collect valuable information about Earth forests. How much pristine forest left on the Planet? Is our forest used in sustainable way? How much forest have been eaten by palm oil plantations? What is the status of key biodiversity areas? And so on ...

The campaign will be performed in three stages, with each stage focusing on different biomes. The focus of this stage, "Human Impact on Tropical Forests", is to collect information on tropical forests at around 50,000 unique locations, each location will be visited by 3 different participants. Moreover, we offer various prizes at each stage!

Join and help us meet our goal!

Prizes:

We would like to reward our citizen scientists with prizes! The campaign's top 20 participants who contribute the most data (measured by both quality and quantity) will win prizes based on their place on the leaderboard!

  • The top 7 contributors on the leaderboard will be offered a choice between:
    • An Amazon voucher (of value from 100 to 350 Euros), OR, alternatively,
    • A reduced Amazon voucher (of value from 50 to 350 Euros) AND co-authorship on a peer-review scientific journal paper summarizing and making openly available the information collected.
  • Contributors ranking between 8 and 15 on the leaderboard will be offered a choice between:
    • An Amazon voucher of 25 or 50 Euros, OR, alternatively,
    • Co-authorship on a scientific paper
Only the top 10 contributors will have the option of combining both co-authorship and an Amazon voucher. The campaign will finish as soon as all points are validated. The amount of the voucher depends on your rank in the final leaderboard, as detailed below:

Rank Prize OR Prize
1 €350 or €300 AND co-authorship
2 €300 or €250 AND co-authorship
3 €250 or €200 AND co-authorship
4 €200 or €150 AND co-authorship
5 €150 or €100 AND co-authorship
6 €100 or €50 AND co-authorship
7 €100 or €50 AND co-authorship
8 €50 OR co-authorship
9 €50 OR co-authorship
10 €50 OR co-authorship
11 €25 OR co-authorship
12 €25 OR co-authorship
13 €25 OR co-authorship
14 €25 OR co-authorship
15 €25 OR co-authorship

In addition, we have a few more nice rewards for you:

  • 2 participants who make it into top 15 with the highest relative quality score will get in addition 50 euros each. If there are a few participants with the same quality score, we will select those who did more validations.
  • 3 participants with the highest number of points during all 3 campaign stages will receive additional 50 euros each!

Please note:

  • Work in groups using one user account is forbidden.
  • To receive any of the prizes mentioned above, your relative quality score should exceed 67%.
  • If you disagree with a control classification, please send us your arguments. If this is our mistake, you will receive additional 100 points.

Please contact us for further information and enquiries.