What will you discover during this year’s City Nature Challenge?
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The City Nature Challenge has grown from a friendly competition between the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to a global celebration of urban biodiversity. By documenting the plants and animals that live nearby, you can contribute to a vast data set that will help inform conservation decisions.
This year's City Nature Challenge is happening April 30-May 9, 2021. You can participate on the iNaturalist website.
For both new and experienced citizen scientists, participating is easy. If you live in or visit the 13-county Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, you can share your observations of nature.
- Download the free iNaturalist app to your mobile device.
- Between April 30 and May 3, 2021, take photos of wild plants and animals in your backyard, in a park, along your walk to school or work—anywhere you find nature in the 13-county metro area.
- Upload your photos to iNaturalist, where they will automatically be counted as part of the City Nature Challenge.
- Then from May 4 through 9, learn more as the iNaturalist community helps identify your observations.
- And share your naturalist expertise to help identify the photos that other people submit on iNaturalist.