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Find the citizen-science records

Draw cards of legally endangered species, guess how many open sighting records each has, then compare with the real counts. Talk about which species are rarely recorded and why, using study 13, and learn how to observe safely and by the rules.

Where do the counts come from?

Counts are read from files collected in advance; the page asks no outside service when it opens. Worldwide sightings (GBIF) counts are study 13's records from South Korea (sightings and specimens) counted on 2026-09-27; iNaturalist counts are research-grade observations in South Korea read on 2026-11-05. A record count measures reporting, not how many animals or plants there are. This tool carries no locations, only numbers.

1. Draw cards

Loading the record counts.

2. Guess: fewer than 10 records?

Choose ‘few’ or ‘many’ on each card. You can see the counts without guessing every card.

3. See the counts

4. Why? Clues from study 13

Questions to discuss

  1. Which species surprised you most? Why did you guess as you did?
  2. Which groups do the rarely recorded species belong to? Do the clues above agree?
  3. Guess why people rarely see or record that species: think of where it lives, its size, when it is active, how hard it is to identify and how many people look for it.
  4. Do few records mean few individuals? Who could help add records, and how?

Read study 13

5. Observing safely and by the rules

Protecting the species comes before recording it.

  • Do not catch, collect or harm endangered wildlife; Korea's Wildlife Protection and Management Act forbids it.
  • Stay away from nests, young, eggs, breeding sites and bat roosts; watch quietly from a distance. No flash, no feeding, no calling them out with sounds.
  • Keep to paths and open areas; do not enter closed protected areas. Do not pick or dig up plants.
  • If you find an endangered species, do not post its exact location on social media, blogs or group chats. This tool carries no locations, and the site's record maps (studies 13 and 14) only show counts in 20 km and 10 km cells.
  • Citizen-science apps such as iNaturalist blur the location of species registered as threatened. Not every species is registered that way, so when you upload an endangered species, set its location to ‘obscured’ yourself.
  • If you see an injured wild animal, do not touch it; tell an adult and contact the local wildlife rescue centre.
  • Always go with an adult, and follow safety rules by water, at the coast and in the hills.

Prints the A4 activity sheet for the drawn cards (guess table, clues, questions, observation rules) and a teacher page with the counts.

Guesses and results stay on this screen; nothing is saved or sent.

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The address holds only the deck settings, never student information.

Terms of use

  • Free, no loginTeachers and students can use every tool at no cost, with no sign-up and no installation.
  • No student data is collectedNames, answers and scores are never sent to or stored on a server. Values such as marked cards stay in this browser only. Photos and fonts load from outside servers, which may keep their own access logs.
  • SourcesGrades come from each country's legal list; photos are used only with creator and open permission (licence) shown; descriptions are the first sentence of Wikipedia. Each card shows its source.
  • Please keep the creditsWhen you print or share, keep the creator, permission and source line on each card. For CC BY and CC BY-SA photos this is a condition of use.
  • Terms for the study team's own materialThe data and card content made by the study team are CC BY-NC 4.0: use them for non-commercial purposes such as teaching, with credit; not in a product for sale. Photos and descriptions keep their own permissions.