We have created a citizen science platform called Biodiversity Atlas – India. It is a species-based bioinformatics platform designed for aggregating, displaying and analysing biodiversity data from tropical developing countries and other biodiversity hotspots such as India. It is a distributed platform of stand-alone, taxon-specific, natural history websites that give ownership and recognition to contributing naturalists. We extensively use this platform and the family of natural history websites that it drives for research as well as educational and other outreach activities. It is a unique platform that is exclusively designed and hosted in India. The following websites are hosted on this platform: Butterflies of India Moths of India:
