City Nature Challenge Begins!

Today is the first day to get outside and start collecting observations for the City Nature Challenge! From now until April 27th, observations can be made within the Denver-Boulder metro area boundary to go towards our CNC totals. Although its not a competition this year, we still encourage everyone to collect as many photos as possible to help increase our biodiversity data for the metro area!

Although observations must be made by end of the day on April 27th, photos can be uploaded to iNaturalist until May 3rd as long as they were taken during the observation window. After the observation period begins the race to identify as many observations as possible to get the data collected to research grade. This means that at least 3 people confirm each observation as the correct species. Getting the data to research grade makes it useable for scientific and management purposes.

As a reminder, please follow local regulations pertaining to COVID-19 and practice safe social distancing when in outdoor spaces. We encourage people to get to know their own neighborhoods and back yards by staying close to home* instead of traveling to parks and open spaces.

*If you are concerned about revealing the location of a sensitive organism (or where your house is), you can hide the exact location from the public by changing the “geoprivacy” of the observation to “obscured.”

For ideas on how to get out there and participate please visit our website: wild.org/naturechallenge.

Posted on April 24, 2020 03:21 PM by coparksandwildlife