Amazo'N'oil

Lead organisation: FEDIQUEP (Non-governmental)

english, ongoing. In collaboration with Amazonian indigenous communities, scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have discovered a new animal behaviour: the ingestion of oil spills by Amazonian wildlife. Thousands of videos have been collected through a trap camera program and now these videos are going to be analysed by volunteers in the aforementioned citizen science webpage (Amazo'N'oil in Zooniverse)

Policy uptake explanation

Results will also be very useful for the inhabitants of the region, who are fighting to protect their land and health. Moreover, results will provide a very valuable knowledge of the health and environmental impacts of the oil industry in the Amazon and beyond. Through this project we also expect to have an impact on education and to raise awareness about a critical issue that the Amazon and its inhabitants face nowadays.

Additional information

Source Inventory of environmental citizen science projects
Web site https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marcartro/amazonoil/about/team
Contact point mailto:contact@zooniverse.org
Start/end date 2013 - Unknown
Still active? No

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