City Nature Challenge 2019 is just around the corner!
Hi everyone!
We're coming up on that time of year again, everyone's favorite international urban biodiversity competition, the City Nature Challenge!
This year the challenge runs April 26-29, starting at midnight on the 26th and ending at 11:59:59 on the 29th. All observations must be made in that window - any observations made in the 9 Bay Area counties will count and will automatically be added to this project. We then have a week to get everything uploaded and to identify as many observations as possible - whatever our numbers say on May 6 at 9:00am will be our final results!
Last year we swept the CNC by taking first in observations, species, and observers. Can we hold onto our title this year? The competition is fierce - last year 68 cities around the world participated, this year we have over 150 cities taking on the challenge!
We're working with an amazing group of Bay Area organizations to put together a suite of events that people can join over the four days of the challenge, plus an ID party or two before May 6. If you're interested in hosting an event, please send me (@kestrel) a message here on iNat! We'll post the list events on this page once it's finalized.
We'll post more updates over the next couple months - join this project to get notified when we add a new post!
And remember: no matter what, we always want to beat LA!
-Alison (@kestrel) & Rebecca (@rebeccafay)
