Identified all the observed species in from oldest to 2019 in La Mesa Eco Park (or Ecopark) in Quezon City, Philippines, Southeast Asia. In particular, I've finished the last page (4 of 4) in the map that I've set. I will finish ID from 2020 to 2023, or the first three pages of images. Fun!
68 identifications done. I've tried my best to answer the four annotations as well (alive or dead, evidence of presence: organism, life stage, sex). In many animal cases, I don't know the sex, but I find that some species of dragonflies can easily be sexed (by colour).
From the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), there are three programmes which are aimed for "capacity building for biodiversity data mobilization and use, cooperation and knowledge sharing", namely:
It led me to reading on one BIFA project which was the digitisation project for the specimens in the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Museum of Natural History. The project focussed on the Luzon island, with four datasets on:
Arachnology - predatory arachnids from 1963 to 2019
Read more here.
It's quite mind-blowing that the UPLB museum holds more than 600k specimens in Philippine flora and fauna!
Anyway, here's a cute sun skink (Eutropis multifasciata) to cap this off, photographed by charleyhesse—
Oh, and I think we'll be needing Spanish and Catalan translations for the Dr. Dioscoro Rabor's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscoro_S._Rabor
Cheers.
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