Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2024: City of Barrie

Thank you for joining us in the City Nature Challenge! Your participation has made a significant impact in documenting our local biodiversity and fostering a deeper connection to nature in our community.
Together, we've explored over 150 different species this year, and now comes the fun part of identifying and verifying what has been collected. We have until Monday May 6th at 9:00 am to upload and identify observations for the City Nature Challenge with the results being shared later that day.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO MARK OBSERVATIONS THAT ARE NOT WILD AS CAPTIVE/CULTIVATED. Click here to learn how!

Failure to do so will skew the area’s data and make it difficult or impossible to use for research and policy planning! This includes pets, animals in a zoo/aquarium, plants in your garden, potted plants, plants at a botanical garden, etc.

So get in there and help others to verify and identify their pictures 😊
Your contributions have helped to enhance scientific understanding and conservation efforts, and we couldn't have done it without you. Let's continue to explore and appreciate the wonders of nature all around us.

Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey and I look forward to our final results.

We did it! The 9th annual City Nature Challenge is done! Thank you so much for all your time, effort, and hard work in making this event as successful as it is – we literally could not do it without you!

Here are the collective results:
Observations: 2,436,844
Species: 65,682+ (including more than 3,940+ rare/endangered/threatened species)
Observers: 83,528
Most-observed species globally: Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)
Cities: 690
Countries: 51

Our final results for Barrie:
Total observations: 219
Total species: 147
Total observers: 23

If you are interested in more information about the CNC results or helping out at a planning level please reach out to Stephanie.Wideman@barrie.ca

Next year’s City Nature Challenge is the 10 year anniversary, and the theme will be “Bring the Globe Together for Biodiversity: April 25-28, 2025 – put it on your calendar!