City Nature Challenge

People gathering for the 2023 City Nature Challenge at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, United States

The City Nature Challenge is an annual, global, community science competition to document urban biodiversity. The challenge is a bioblitz that engages residents and visitors to find and document plants, animals, and other organisms living in urban areas.[1][2] The goals are to engage the public in the collection of biodiversity data, with three awards each year for the cities that make the most observations, find the most species, and engage the most people.[1][3][4]

Participants primarily use the iNaturalist app and website to document their observations. The observation period is followed by several days of identification and the final announcement of winners.[1][5] Participants need not know how to identify the species; help is provided through iNaturalist's automated species identification feature as well as the community of users on iNaturalist, including professional scientists and expert naturalists.[6]

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