Welcome to the City Nature Challenge 2024: City of Barrie
Welcome to the City Nature Challenge in Barrie!
The City of Barrie will be entering into its second year of the annual four-day global bio-blitz, looking to improve on last year's results of placing fourth in Ontario. This collaborative-meets-friendly competition engages communities to work together towards a common goal and to see which cities can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and involve the greatest number of people in the event. In 2023, 482 cities participated, with more than 66,400 people making 1.9 million observations of urban wildlife and nature. Forty Canadian cities are participating in this year’s CNC event
April 26- April 29: Take photos of wild plants and animal species in your backyards, neighbourhood park and open natural areas within the City of Barrie city limits, and upload them into iNaturalist.
April 30-May 5th: Join the community on iNaturalist.ca by identifying your photos and those of others who participate on the City Nature Challenge-City of Barrie project page. Check back as we record all the biodiversity found with the results announced on May 6th, 2024.
We want to capture a snapshot of our ecosystem through your inventory of photos. Our area has many native, wild organisms as well as many invasive and weedy species. Captive or cultivated organism such as planted trees, houseplants or pets should be marked using the captive/cultivated option, but we encourage participants to focus primarily on wild plants and animals. So just remember:
• No People
• No Pets
• No Plants planted by people (e.g. landscaping, gardens or potted plants)
The goals of the CNC are to:
• Connect people in urban areas to their local natural environment,
• Connect people to each other while building community in person and online around local nature,
• Collect urban biodiversity data available to use for science, management, and conservation,
• Grow volunteer biodiversity documentation/citizen science globally, and
• Have fun through friendly competition and global collaboration.
New to iNaturalist?
Check out the links below. Read or watch how to use the iNaturalist mobile app. Once you are familiar with the app you can read how to upload and identify on the iNaturalist webpage.
iNaturalist App Video:
https://vimeo.com/162581545
iNaturalist App PDF:
https://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/downloads/booklets-handouts/iNaturalist-App-How-to.pdf
iNaturalist Web Uploading:
https://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/downloads/booklets-handouts/iNaturalist-Web-How-to.pdf
iNaturalist Web Identifying:
https://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/downloads/booklets-handouts/iNaturalist-Identify-How-to-Web.pdf
Check out the City Nature Challenge Website:
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