Diario del proyecto City Nature Challenge 2024: INLAND EMPIRE

Thank you all for participating in this year's City Nature Challenge. We had the most participants in the Inland Empire than any previous year, which was really exciting! Hopefully, it only continues to grow.

Here are the collective results from the entire world:

• 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)

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!

Here is an infographic highlighting the collective results and interesting finds from around the world.

I've been seeing many great observations come in for the CNC so keep up the good work! We are now in the upload and ID phase, which means observations can still be uploaded as long as they were taken from Friday to Monday (April 26-29). Also, if you are able to, provide taxonomic identifications to as many observations as you can. The goal is to make most of the observations "Research Grade" so that they are usable for scientific research. We have until May 5th to upload and ID. Results of the CNC will be announced on May 6th. Thank you for your participation!

The 2024 City Nature Challenge starts next Friday! Submit your iNat observations 26-29 April and Upload & ID observations 30 April - 5 May. Results will be announced on 6 May. Looking forward to seeing what we find this year!