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.

The new citizen participation uses "Citizen Science" in their hometown and nationwide to get your feedback on places. As a result, citizens are empowered to become active in a city worth living in to collect and share data themselves and to interact with scientists. This enables them to recognize the consequences of sealing, heat, water shortages, and a lack of biodiversity, and generally, how places in their own environment affect us all.

People must be given the opportunity to take part in meaningful projects themselves and to discover for themselves what climate, environmental, and transport policies really mean for them and their direct living environment. Together with the St. Pölten citizens' platform, we are starting a first test project for more citizen participation and feedback to the city administrations.

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.

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.

With the "LitterBug" app by independent Austrian environmental organization GLOBAL 2000, you can sharpen your awareness for the trash left in nature and help cleaning it up. The aim is to support a sustainable clean environment everywhere.

A cleaner environement with Citizen Science

The GLOBAL 2000 DreckSpotz App should not only make our nature a little cleaner, but also ensure that it stays that way in the long term. With the app, people from all over Austria and beyond can help to collect data in order to develop long-term solutions for the waste problem.