City Nature Challenge 2020 - web-based orientation/discussion

Hello!

We hope you all are staying well during these difficult times.

We wanted to let you know about an opportunity coming up later this month that you might be interested in!

City Nature Challenge 2020 – April 24-27
In light of the recent global health situation, the organizers of City Nature Challenge (CNC) – a global urban nature observation weekend – have made some shifts to the event. This year’s CNC is no longer a competition. Instead, we want to embrace the healing power of nature and encourage the collaborative aspect of the CNC. There are many different ways you can participate in this event, while following public health guidelines provided by your local government. Please see www.zoo.org/conservation/naturechallenge and www.citynaturechallenge.org for details. We hope you find joy in observing your local nature this spring, even if that means looking out your windows or in your own backyard! (Please note that this is a global event; if you choose to participate, it is not considered as volunteer hours for Woodland Park Zoo.)

We invite you to join us for a web-based orientation and discussion on City Nature Challenge 2020:

Observing nearby nature in the Seattle-Tacoma area - City Nature Challenge 2020
Date: Friday, April 17, 2020
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ctcuiorTMrUmnJ6RCsy9dx89Rn8CZ3_w
Hosted by Katie Remine, Living Northwest Conservation Coordinator and Kelly Lindmark, Learning Facilitator, Woodland Park Zoo and Leshell Bergen, Conservation Engagement Coordinator, Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Woodland Park Zoo and Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium are thrilled to help mobilize people across the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area (all of Snohomish, King and Pierce counties) to join the City Nature Challenge – a nature observation event using the iNaturalist app. Celebrate Earth Day 2020 by participating in City Nature Challenge!

The City Nature Challenge will take place in two parts:

• April 24 - 27 - Observe! Take and upload pictures of wild plants and animals

• April 28 - May 4 - Identify! Help identify what was found
  You can support this effort by being an observer, helping others identify their observations, or better yet - both!

Are you interested in participating in City Nature Challenge 2020? Do you want to help motivate other people to participate? What questions do you have about participating in City Nature Challenge in light of current public health guidelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

In this web-based meeting, Woodland Park Zoo staff will lead you through an introduction to the online biodiversity observation tool, iNaturalist. We will share tips for making and documenting observations of the many wild birds, bugs and plants that call our area home. You will also learn how to help your family, friends and others in your community participate in City Nature Challenge. We will provide time for discussion about how to participate, and how to help others participate, in City Nature Challenge safely in light of our current global health situation. Let’s see how much nature we can observe, in a way that is safe for our health, in the greater Seattle area in one weekend!

Cheers,
Katie & Josiah
Woodland Park Zoo – Amphibian Monitoring

Posted on April 2, 2020 12:26 AM by karorem