Archived Outdoors
New year brings new species to the Smokies
Discover Life in America had a busy year, with many new species added to the nonprofit’s ever-increasing inventory of species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This year, DLiA’s flagship project, the Smokies All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, logged the following stats:
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250 species added to park list
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19 of those species are new to science
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21,552 total species are currently known to exist in the park
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35,414 iNaturalist observations were made in the park (up 41% from 2021)
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2,612 iNaturalist users submitted these observations
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1,984 iNaturalist users helped identify the observations.
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3,425 park species were observed on iNaturalist
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25 of these species were new park records
To learn more about DLiA, visit dlia.org.
