Hey, VEGMappers, 😊
It’s that time again to share the progress on the VEGMAPhoto project. So far, we have represented 248 vegetation types, with an additional 19 new vegetation types represented since our last report. Yay!

Thank you to each one of you for adding your observations on our globally recognised project. We appreciate all contributions made by each observer and identifier.

View some of the landscape photos from VEGMAPhoto that were included in the Global Vegetation Project here: http://gveg.wyobiodiversity.org/

Below we have a map of our VEGMAPhoto progress. Darker green shades represent vegetation types that have the most landscape photographs, whereas the white space represent types that have not been tagged into this project yet.

For a list of vegetation types that do not have images, click here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/178pqp46gocmo14uIlphYOOWDDuvpCsW8/edit#gid=1124493966

When contributing your observations, please remember to fill out all necessary fields to the best of your ability. In order to report on pressures affecting specific regions within vegetation types, fields like Ecological integrity and Observed biotic and abiotic stresses are extremely helpful.

Please be aware that if you have a lot of landscape pictures with GPS coordinates that you'd like to contribute to the project but don't have the time to upload them, email us at vegmap@sanbi.org.za and we'll help you out by doing it for you.

We are looking forward to more landscape images.

Till next time, keep well and let’s keep ball rolling.

Kagiso Mogajane, on behalf of the VEGMAP team. 😊