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Hello Zooniverse!

Today we're very pleased to announce our latest project: Notes from Nature (http://www.notesfromnature.org) - through your efforts we can help scientists and researchers make better conservation decisions.

People have been collecting specimens from the natural world for centuries - minerals, plants, fungi and animals. Today, there are an estimated two billion specimens housed in natural history museums around the world! These biological collections document where species and populations exist now and where they existed decades and centuries before, so they hold irreplaceable information necessary for uncovering the patterns of changes in species distributions and ecosystem composition over time. Scientists use such data and information in order to address key environmental issues we are facing right now, such as the impacts of climate change and how diseases affect wildlife and humans.

We need you to help us transcribe that data and make it available for further use in biodiversity and conservation research.

Visit the new site now at http://www.notesfromnature.org

Thanks for all your help, and we hope to see you on our projects soon.

Arfon and the Zooniverse Team

PS - Find the new blog at http://blog.notesfromnature.org and follow @nfromn on Twitter

PPS Find us on Twitter @the_zooniverse (our projects are on Twitter too, for example: @galaxyzoo and @cyclonecenter)