Get Ready for City Nature Challenge 2023!
Hi everyone,
The annual City Nature Challenge is happening this year on April 28 – May 1, 2023. The City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document what lives in towns and cities across the globe. There are around 485 other cities participating this year so it will be great to see what everyone finds!
I’ve tagged you in this post because you are a top 50 observer in the Charlottesville area. We’re hoping you’ll participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge. It is top iNat observers like you that will really help push us ahead in number of observations made and species recorded in Virginia. The easiest way to participate is to make as many iNaturalist observations of as many species as possible in the City of Charlottesville as well as Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, and Orange counties during April 28 – May 1. Helping with identifications will increase our final species numbers so that’s a great way to participate as well. You can find our City Nature Challenge: Charlottesville Region project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-charlottesville-region-va
The 2023 City Nature Challenge runs from 12:01am on Friday, 4/28 to 11:59pm on Monday, 5/1. All iNaturalist observations from Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, and Orange counties will automatically be counted towards the Challenge. Results will be announced on Monday, May 8 so be sure to upload all your observations by then. For more information and for a list of events happening across Virginia area during this challenge, please visit our website at https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/events/virginia-city-nature-challenge/
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Hey, I'd really like to do this with my class, but they don't have direct access to iNaturalist. Will it mess up the data if I enter their observations? Is there a different way to do this with a class of students? Thanks!
@carolgibsonbusching That's totally fine to log your students observations! It will not mess up the data. In fact it's usually better to log all the observations on one adult's account when working with children. There is a City Nature Challenge educator's toolkit that may be helpful: https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/education-toolkit
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