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Questions, help or just curious?Green Growth Wildlife
Suriname's lush forests are home to a plethora of unique flora and animals. Despite this abundance, there is still a lack of a unified system that consolidates all critical information in a single, easily accessible location. This is where the Green Growth Wildlife app comes in, providing a complete platform for collecting vital information that will help map and understand the health of Suriname's biodiversity.
A Citizen Science App to Map Suriname's Abundant Wildlife
The aim for the future is to build an engaged community of Citizen Scientists who will act as the eyes and ears of our 93 percent wooded Suriname by routinely updating the app with their observations, thus giving scientists a complete view of Suriname's wildlife. These data will help Suriname's policymakers manage biodiversity sustainably.
CaneToads
Cane toads are relentless invaders. They were transported to sugar cane growing regions of the world from South America early last century, including Australia, in the hope, they would eradicate beetles devastating sugar cane crops. The experiment failed spectacularly. Toads ignored beetles, and instead embarked on an epic global invasion. With this App, you can reduce their population to protect local flora and fauna.
Citizen Science helping to cope with an invasive species
The purpose of the Cane Toad Challenge app is to support citizen science, to inspire the public, media, scientists, authorities and decision-makers, to catalyse awareness and gather data, to inform the development and implementation of more effective cane toad control policies and practices.
Green Growth Forests
With the Green Growth Forest app, everyone can contribute to keeping Suriname the greenest country on earth.
Suriname is a small country in South America, an impressive 93 per cent of it is covered in dense forests. One could say it‘s one of the greenest countries on the planet. It's forest contributes to the world’s climate change as one of two carbon negative countries globally, and it harbours the world’s fourth-largest amount of freshwater resources.
A Citizen Science App to keep Suriname green
To keep it that way, the Green Growth Suriname Foundation invites citizens to keep watch on the forests and the tree logging there, and contribute to complement existing national data on forest conservation.
Data gathered by citizens in the app can help scientists understand the drivers of tree logging and find solutions for it.
Can I use my user account in multiple apps?
Absolutely! After creating your user account, you can log in with it in all apps and projects on the SPOTTERON platform without the need to register again. You can find additional apps and topics here: https://www.spotteron.app/apps - Please be invited to download any app which you like to join and start spotting!
How can I erase my stored personal data?
To erase all your personal data stored on Spotteron you can simply go to the settings panel in the app you use. There you can enter your current password there as confirmation about your identity and then just "klick" Delete now. There is not even a delay, your personal data is automatically erased.
GPS-Location doesn't work. What can I do?
At the first start of the app, it asks for permission to use the location of your phone. Please make sure that you have granted that permission - you can find an app's permission in your phone settings. Alternatively, you can uninstall and reinstall the app and grant permission - no worries, no user account data or observations are lost, you have simply to log in again.
If the reticle doesn't jump to your current location, you can also use the address search 
to find it or move the map to your current location manually.
If you want to be use your location, you need to turn on "Location" in your phone's quick settings (if it wasn't turned on already) and open the app again, wait a few seconds and click on the crosshairs 
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