Welcome and overview of the City Nature Challenge!

Hi there! Thanks for visiting the CNC 2023: Lower Rio Grande Valley project. I hope you will consider joining the project (simply click the "Join" button on the main page, upper right corner) so that you will receive alerts when new journal posts are added. While its not required to have your observations counted during the CNC, it helps you know which ones you've made are contributing to the project and gives us organizers have an early idea of how many folks intend to participate!

This is the 6th year the Lower Rio Grande Valley has participated in the CNC. There have been 43,235 observations added to iNaturalist during the region's CNCs in total, which accounts for roughly 11.5% of all observations in the area. Put another way, for every eleven observations made in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties, one was added during the CNC. Impressive numbers! You can learn more about how those observations contribute to science at the following blog post: https://cuefornature.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/scientific-use-of-inaturalist/

If you are unfamiliar with iNaturalist, please visit the "What is it" and "How can I use it" pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/what+is+it
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/how+can+i+use+it

They also have a "Getting Started" page to learn how iNaturalist's observation system works:
https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started

The City Nature Challenge website has useful Frequently Asked Questions page:
https://citynaturechallenge.org/cnc-faqs-page/

If you have other questions about the City Nature Challenge 2023: Lower Rio Grande Valley, please post it in the comments or message @bcfl14. Stayed tuned for more updates as we get closer to the start date!

Posted on February 1, 2023 03:29 PM by bcfl14