Text excerpt from City Nature Challenge Website:
What is the City Nature Challenge?
The City Nature Challenge is an effort to explore urban nature and document biodiversity in cities around the world. Over 60 cities in 14 countries worldwide are planning to participate. It’s time to show how much biodiversity is in our backyards in Fairfax County!
Join the conservation community from April 27-April 30, 2018 to take the City Nature Challenge!
The goal is to engage local residents in the value of urban biodiversity and to collect important data for scientists, land managers, non-profits, and governments about the areas that they help to protect. The Washington, DC metropolitan area includes the District of Columbia, 17 cities/counties in Virginia, 13 cities/counties in Maryland, and Jefferson County, West Virginia. The Baltimore metropolitan area has another set of events as well.
How do I contribute observations?
- Download the free iNaturalist app to your mobile device and sign up for the City Nature Challenge Washington, DC. Want to learn more about iNaturalist? Clean Fairfax wrote a blogpost about it a few months ago!
- During April 27-30, 2018, sign up for a local CNC event or take photos of observations of wild plants and animals in your backyard, a park, your walk to school or work—anywhere you find nature.
- Upload your photos to iNaturalist .
- Learn more as the iNaturalist community helps identify your observations.
