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*Smart phones users have increased to more than 7 million in 2014 (Harcourt, Duarte & Meekan, 2017).
Smart phone apps have the potential to...

*Change how we interact with nature

*Help with biodiversity problems

*Make environmental knowledge accessible to everyone

*Give us new ways to enjoy nature

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iTunes App Store and Android Market gives us access to low-cost, and easy to install apps (Jepson &Ladle, 2015)

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Nature apps can be divided into six major categories
1. Personalisation
2. Gaming
3. Nature recreation
4. Site visits
5. Reference and News
6. Citizen Science
Out of the 6 types of nature apps personalisation and gaming are the most common (Jepson & Ladle, 2015)

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WILD app is being used in Africa to help existing wildlife, anti-poaching activity and reduce human wildlife conflicts (iAfrica, 2016).

**Read the short article for more information about how WILD is helping wildlife in Africa

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Trees and plants are very important for the environment!
Many apps have been developed to help educated people about trees and plants as well as to help save trees around the world!
Some examples include:
*Cotton app (Vellidis et al. 2014).
*Leafsnap (Conservation Gateway, 2017)
*Healthy Trees Healthy Cities

Image: Leaves, Wikipedia, 2019)

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Encounters with animals in the wild can be made more enjoyable if you are able to identify them! Apps can help us go from roadkill to saving whales

Some examples include
*Whale Alert
*Wild App
*iBird
*Roadkill SPOTTERON

** Below you can watch an animation of how the Whale Alert app works (Hyperspective, 2012) to help reduce the number of whale-ships strike deaths (Harcourt, Duarte & Meekan, 2017).

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*Nature and conservation information is in the palms of our hands. We can access the information anytime and anywhere (Imperial College London, 2015).

*Many apps help with citizen science data collection projects which can help with a variety of conservation efforts (Teacher, Griffiths, Hodgson &Ingere, 2013). This will continue to be used as

*Apps that link consumption to impact on biodiversity can help people make better choices to help with sustainability (Nghiem & Carrasco, 2016).

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Some apps such as iBat work bet with added-on sensors which can be expensive (Jepson &Ladle, 2015)

Negative consequences of nature-related apps. For example apps can increase disturbances to areas which can affect species

Some might become too dependent on technology and forget about the traditional methods of interacting with nature

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Helps keeps the trees in your neighborhood healthy. This app encourages people to plant or take care of trees!

**Click on the video below to learn more about the app Healthy Trees Healthy Cities (Bugwood UGA Tifton, 2017)

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This app helps identify & count roadkill
pictures of roadkill can be uploaded and linked to a database
provides public awareness of the issue and gets more volunteers (Vercayie & Herremans, 2015).

*Watch the video to learn how to use this simple app that can help understand biodiversity (NINC Media, 2016)

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Project ROADKILL || Citizen Science || English Version || SPOTTERON

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Smart phone conservation games you can play!

If you are into games try one of the following games that will help you not only save virtual environments but your natural habitat as well!

**Poacher Terminator
*Tree Planet
*Animally Rescue
*Save the Park

**The video below is a short introduction to Save the Park app (Games for Change, 2016)

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