City Nature Challenge 2022 Results!
Thanks so much to everyone for another wonderful City Nature Challenge! It's always so incredible to see all the biodiversity in all these different places we call home.
Since not every city uses iNaturalist for the CNC, we wanted to make sure to share the full collective results with all of you:
Total # of observations: 1,694,877
Total # of observers: 67,220
Average # of observations per contributor: 25.2
Total # of species documented: 50,176+, including more than 2,244 rare/endangered/threatened species
Most observed species: Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Number of participating countries: 47
Number of participating cities: 445
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THIS GRAPH IS AMAZING. THESE STATS ARE AMAZING.
(Keep your eyes peeled... Monterey Bay, California is planning on joining the official CNC in 2023! We've got a good standing to take on SF.)
Amazing efforts from everybody! Thanks for another year of great competition ;)
I so enjoy this opportunity to explore, photograph, and contribute. Will there be a city by city analysis this year?
This is so much fun! Can't wait for the next one!
Even though I joined, I was unable to post any pictures. It didn’t have an upload option when in this project. Any ideas what I did wrong?
Thank you to the organizers and the iNat staff for supporting this amazing event.
Love the graphics!! Here's to 2 million observations in 2023!
@lroznovsky Looks like you have four observations in the CNC: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2022&subview=map&user_id=lroznovsky&verifiable=any; included as part of the Houston-Galveston project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2022-houston-galveston.
All the CNC city projects are set up so that you don't add your observations directly to the project. As long as your observations are made during the CNC window (April 20 - May 2) and are within a boundary of a participating CNC city, they will be automatically aggregated into that city's CNC project.
Question: How big is the area included in the city challenge for Ottawa-Gatineau? Is it the same they use for rare birds; 50K in a circle from the Peace Tower downtown Ottawa or is it more extensive in connection with the CNC?
@ninastavlund If you look at the projects "about" page, you can see the defined areas included in the project. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/citynaturechallenge-definatureurbaine-2022-ottawa-gatineau?tab=about
If you click on each of the places, you can see a map with the place boundaries.
1.6 MILLION - that is incredible...love this project and love the challenge - can't wait til the next one...is there a plan to keep it 4 days for making observations? Congratulations to everyone, it is great to be able to reach out across the world and join in this effort - keep observing everyone.
I had so much fun on this iNaturalist project! Hoping to do it again and better!
Nanette Lamothe
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