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A IUCN disponibilizou os dados de distribuição de espécies ameaçadas para que sejam feitos mapas que possam ser distribuídos sob uma licença Creative Commons By-SA 2.0.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Alexandre Neto<br></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>IUCN red list</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has agreed to license distribution maps derived from the data present on their website with a Creative Commons By-SA 2.0. There are currently around 25,000 maps for many species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and corals.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">We need help producing the maps, inputting description and source of the images (including translations), and uploading them to Commons. You can read more on how you can help<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:IUCN_red_list" title="Commons:IUCN red list" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">here</a>.</p>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="How_you_can_help">How you can help</span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/bullet-icon.png?1");">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">If you have some sort of GIS software installed on your computer (check list<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_information_systems_software" class="extiw" title="en:List of geographic information systems software" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: none; padding: 0px;">here</a>) that can read shapefiles, download the spatial data from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?2"); padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; background-position: 100% 50%;">spatial data</a>.<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/bullet-icon.png?1");">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Check if the species you want to draw a map for does not have a distribution map already (check the species category,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_distribution_maps" title="Category:Animal distribution maps" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">Category:Animal distribution maps</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flora_distribution_maps" title="Category:Flora distribution maps" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">Category:Flora distribution maps</a>, or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IUCN_distribution_maps" title="Category:IUCN distribution maps" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">Category:IUCN distribution maps</a>).</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Use as background a free world map, such as the one found at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?2"); padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; background-position: 100% 50%;">Natural Earth</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?2"); padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; background-position: 100% 50%;">public domain</a>). For specific countries, you can also use the ones at<a href="http://downloads.cloudmade.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url("http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?2"); padding: 0px 13px 0px 0px; background-position: 100% 50%;">CloudMade</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(CC-BY-SA-2.0).</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Export the map for the species you are interested in PNG or SVG formats.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Upload it to Commons, with the information mentioned above.</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">
Check that the maps in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IUCN_distribution_maps" title="Category:IUCN distribution maps" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none;">Category:IUCN distribution maps</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have the information above.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Check if the maps are categorized properly.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Check if newer data is available at the IUCN website.</li></ul></span></span><br><br><br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:IUCN_red_list"><br>
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