CNC 2024 Results!

Thanks so much to everyone for another wonderful record-breaking City Nature Challenge! Thank you to everyone who took the time to get outside and make an observation, worked on identifications, spread the word, held an event, and more – all of you helped to share the biodiversity of the places you call home with the rest of the world! And of course a huge THANK YOU to all of our local organizers: they're the ones who make the City Nature Challenge happen in their cities, and this event would not be successful without them.
Since not every city uses iNaturalist for the CNC, we wanted to make sure to share the full collective results with all of you (visit the citynaturechallenge.org site to see the full leaderboard!):

• Total # of observations: 2,436,844
• Total # of observers: 83,528
• Total # of species documented: 65,682+, including more than 3,940 rare/endangered/threatened species
• Most observed species: Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos), with 5,830 observations
• Number of participating countries: 51
• Number of participating cities: 690

See the infographic below for some interesting and fun finds from around the world!

And mark your calendars, next year's 10th anniversary City Nature Challenge is April 25-28, 2025!

If your city doesn't currently participate in the City Nature Challenge and you wish it did, find someone willing to be your city's local organizer and have them fill out the "Interested in organizing for CNC 2025" form!

Posted on May 6, 2024 09:51 PM by lhiggins