ZSL Instant Wild 4+
Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
ZSL’s Instant Wild app empowers you to take part in vital conservation work, bringing you LIVE images and videos from amazing locations all around the world. By identifying the animals in each image, you are contributing to conservation and making a positive impact on the future for wildlife.
This is the next generation of Instant Wild, which mobilises people power to scale up important animal monitoring work, helping scientists to protect wildlife and secure a richer biodiversity for all!
What rare species will you find?
Key features:
* View and identify images and video transmitted live from the field and contribute to conservation research wherever you are.
* Follow projects to support conservation work that you’re specifically interested in and curate your own feed on your home page.
* Gain badges, work towards being one of our daily Top Spotters and get shout outs for your hard work.
* See exactly how many animals – including endangered ones - you’ve spotted and save favourite images to your profile.
* Check out the leaderboards to see how you stack up against those leading the way in species identification both overall and for the rarest sightings.
* See latest news on Instant Wild and stay up to date with the latest conservation news from the Instant Wild team.
* Join our bustling Instant Wild community and discuss what’s been spotted in each photograph.
* Receive alerts to keep you updated on the latest from projects you follow.
* Share the most interesting images and videos on social media.
How it works:
Motion triggered cameras are a crucial tool for monitoring animal populations and movements, and this information allows us to develop methods for conserving them. As an animal moves past one of our Instant Wild cameras it will trigger, taking a photo which is immediately sent back to the app in real time for identification by you. Identifying thousands of images takes time but with your help we can identify even more species and help to protect them.
You don’t need any qualifications or special expertise to take part – lots of help is provided to make sure you make the right identification – simply sign up and start tagging the animals in the images.
Your involvement will not only contribute to conservation, making you part of our ZSL community, you’ll also get a window into the some of the world’s wildest places.
Instant Wild is a Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Initiative.
Founded in 1826, ZSL is a global conservation charity with a mission to conserve the planet's wildlife and their habitats. With two Zoos, a renowned Institute of Zoology and over 50 conservation projects worldwide, ZSL uses ground-breaking science to fuel life-changing conservation.
What’s New
Version 5.2
Fixed startup crash on some iOS devices
New ZSL logo
Disabling of Twitter feed due to Twitter API closure
Removed Facebook login
Fixed issue with new browser cookie security policies preventing login
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic Project but App needs to Improve
It’s important to remember that this is a volunteer based development on a great project. The old app did need updating and although this has definitely been updated, it has currently lost its magic:
- Identifications are clunky and take a long time to select with Load More as a button rather than just scrolling down.
- You can no longer sail through different areas - the app keeps you within one place, often seeing the same camera over and over making it very long winded to come out of an area and into another.
- Very hard to see what you’ve identified.
- The community spirit has been lost as I can no longer see where to view comments and again, this is very messy with a third party interface coming in to play.
Animalazing! Needs an improvement.
This app is great! Even if you don’t sign in and continue as a guest. But one thing, when you tag animals and click “Confirm Identification” it doesn’t do it. You click and re-click still the button doesn’t disappear or do what it says. Only once you go back to the page before, then it disappears. I haven’t spotted any other lags, apart from that it takes a while to load and it doesn’t say it’s loading. Instead it’s just blank. Back to the good things. You count the animals, tag the species, and help zoologists at the same time. It’s really good if you want to find out different animals or learn about wildlife in different countries, or even follow a camera to get the latest and greatest pics. I would recommend this app to anyone who is interested in wildlife. If you have read my review, thank you and have fun tagging!
What happened??
This app no longer works at all and appears to have been completely abandoned by ZSL. It would be such a shame for it to be moth balled now we are stuck at home more than ever. Please please update this and get it back working. I know I and many others will have enjoyed identifying the species that stroll by the cameras all over the world.
App Privacy
The developer, Zoological Society of London (ZSL), indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Zoological Society of London
- Size
- 67.8 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Zoological Society of London
- Price
- Free