City Nature Challenge 2023: Charlottesville Region, VA's Journal

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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Help us win City Nature Challenge.

It's raining (a lot!), but we hope you'll get outside between the drops and make wildlife observations so we can top last year's Challenge numbers in the Charlottesville Region (Albemarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Orange and City of Charlottesville).

Snap a photo in iNat of that worm on the sidewalk (it counts!) or that dandelion in your yard (it counts!) or the fly in your vehicle (it counts!).

Observations are slowly rolling in already and we hope to top last year's challenge numbers. Will you spread the word and help us?
• top 2,081 wildlife observations
• top 688 species
• top 234 people making observations

All iNaturalist observations from the Charlottesville Region will automatically be counted in the Challenge. Results will be finalized on Monday, May 8 so be sure to upload all your observations by then. For more information and for a list of in-person events happening in the Charlottesville area during the challenge, please visit our website https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/events/virginia-city-nature-challenge/

Thanks,
Jen Dalke
Volunteer Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy
jdalke@tnc.org

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