Announcing the 2021 City Nature Challenge! Seven areas from the Maritimes are registered to participate!
Does anyone remember the Maritimes 2020 City Nature Challenge? Lets put 2020 behind us and plan for a great 2021.
The global CNC will take place once again in two parts. The first 4 days (April 30th - May 3rd) will be dedicated to recording observations. These observations may be uploaded immediately or a few hours or days later. The cutoff for uploading is May 9th. Observations may be identified at any time but the focus of the second part of the CNC is on getting as many observations as possible identified.
The CNC stats include the number of participants, the number of observations, and the number of species. It is fun watching the changes in the leaderboard over the CNC event - it is easy to tell when groups of iNatters in different parts of the world are sleeping.
There are 7 areas from the Maritimes registered to participate in the 2021 event. These include 3 areas in Nova Scotia (HRM, CBRM, and the Valley), 3 areas in New Brunswick (Westmorland County, Charlotte County, and Fredericton), and one entry from 'urban' PEI (combined Charlottetown and Summerside).
In order for our entries to be respectable we need everyone to participate. This is a great opportunity to introduce iNat to family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, and anyone else who might listen! If you are unable to travel and help collect observations from any of the registered areas you can still participate by helping identify observations. You can also mentor participants and suggest species that they should look for or areas to explore.
Mark your calendars today but don't wait until April to learn how to use iNat - get out exploring as soon as possible and make a list of places that you can re-visit once the challenge starts.
The objectives of the local organizers are the same as in past years. We simply wish to encourage people to get outdoors, to explore, to observe nature, to share observations, and to have fun.
To keep informed about the CNC in our area please join this iNat project!
And of course follow our Facebook page.
If you have any questions just send us an email at cnc2019hrm@gmail.com
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