VisibleNature

Hello twitter, please allow us to introduce ourselves! We are a group with a passion for nature. We’re aiming to encourage people and institutions to share open reusable content to document the beauty of nature and to help fill knowledge gaps in #biodiversity. #VisibleNature 1/

Now on Wikipedia ✨

Some extraordinary open macro photography of fungi and slime molds of the forest floor by @inaturalist contributor alexis_orion, a young naturalist and nature photographer from Germany. All images freely reusable with attribution (CC BY): instagram.com/naturefold/

One more ☝️ Delias sambawana from Bali. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delias_sa…

…and more are underway. Do you have good-quality photos of poorly documented endemic species from your country? Make them available under an open license and we’ll reuse them (with full credits) as the official illustration of the species on wiki. ✨

Celebrating the very first images on Wikipedia of many butterfly species from Sumatra. Thanks to @FishGuyKai for sharing them on @inaturalist under a CC-BY-SA license 🦋 1. Abisara aita en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abisara_a…

THIS THURSDAY: Don't forget our #PublicDomain VIRTUAL party! Join Internet Archive, @creativecommons and many others to celebrate the works of art & culture from 1927 that have entered the public domain. eventbrite.com/e/public-domai…

Silverstone's Robber Frog (Pristimantis silverstonei) is a vulnerable species of frog from Colombia’s Western Andes. There are few photos of this frog in its habitat, and none is CC-licensed. Thanks to iNat contributor @gesnerio, Wikipedia now has one ✨. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristiman…

New Wikipedia stub: Promachus consanguineus, a robber fly endemic to the Canary Islands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promachus… 📷 CC BY SA image courtesy of @inaturalist contributor Sandy Rae. #Asilidae

…and make sure to RSVP as registration is required. ⬆️

📣 Save the date!

My 1000th #wikipedia page/stub. Written because of the Kevin Thiele photograph to the right. Stub or not, as always it involved #wikidata work and #wikicommons work. In wikidata adding to articles, authors, and taxa. @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman @wm_au

The Laurel Pigeon, an endangered species endemic to the laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Spain, finally has a high-quality, free-licensed photo for its Wikipedia entry, courtesy of iNat contributor Thibaud Aronson. 🙌🏻

Lipochaeta ranica—a recently described species of shore fly from California—has a new Wikipedia article, illustrated with gorgeous CC0 macro images by iNaturalist contributor Tobias Hays. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipochaet…

Our Observation of the Day is this Spiranthes infernalis #orchid, seen in the #UnitedStates by graeserr! This #plant is listed as Imperiled by NatureServe. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1… #botany #flowers #nature #biodiversity

A female Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) with her child foraging on the hard ground at Katagamuwa Sanctuary, Sri Lanka. Photo by Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl, CC BY-SA 4.0 via @WikiLovesEarth commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fema…