City Nature Challenge: Natural sciences museum needs you to document nature this weekend
The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences needs you to help them document nature in the Triangle as part of a City Nature Challenge that pits cities around the world against each other to see who can document the most biodiversity on the iNaturalist app over a four-day period.
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The challenge runs from Friday, April 26 to Monday, April 29. And the Triangle is up against some big competitors—Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Hong Kong, London and more. But, notes the museum's press release on the challenge, "North Carolina’s amazing biodiversity and the great urban wildlife we see every day can help us win!"
To have a shot at winning top honors, it's likely the Triangle will need more than 30,000 submissions. To help, all you need to do is take pictures of plants, animals and fungi in the Triangle area between April 26 and April 29 and then submit them online. The top three local contributors will get to take home some prizes too, so there's plenty of reasons to get to work.
Here's how you can participate:
- Create a free iNaturalist account and start practicing submitting your sightings.
- Join museum staff in person at the downtown Raleigh museum or at Prairie Ridge Ecostation in west Raleigh. Events will be listed on the museum's website.
- Visit any outdoor space in the Triangle from April 26 to April 29, take photos of the plants, animals, and fungi you see, and submit them to iNaturalist app on your own. You can submit as you go or carry a camera with you and upload them through the website by noon, May 2.
Go Team Triangle!
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