Rev. Travis 🏴CITY NATURE CHALLENGE 2024!!!!
Okay maybe I'm excited because I can finally stop doing IDs until my eyes cross, but also maybe because this was the BIGGEST CNC EVERRRRRRR.
I even wrote a journal entry about it for our Monterey Bay Area CNC project. Dig this shit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/94087-the-results-are-in-and-they-look-awesome
If you'd like more info about the Monterey Bay Area project, you'll get a lot from clicking this:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-monterey-bay-area-california
Y'all up there in the SF Bay did a damn fine job this year, as usual (I mean goddamn, you and LA did *start* the thing):
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-san-francisco-bay-area
If you're wondering why my hippie ass is rambling about something called City Nature Challenge, this is the link for you:
https://citynaturechallenge.org
#CityNatureChallenge #iNaturalist #nature #science #news #CNC #tech #Monterey #SantaCruz #MontereyBay #SFbay #California #global #ParticipatoryScience #CommunityScience #CitizenScience #UCANR #UCEnvironmentalStewards #ClimateStewards #CaliforniaNaturalist
The results are in and they look AWESOME!
🥳🥳The 2024 City Nature Challenge global totals have arrived!🥳🥳Hello there, Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties! After months of organizers' meetings, exploratory field trips, countless emails, and frantically trying to remember how to use HTML markup so this update looks fancy, CNC 2024 is finally done! Globally, more than 83,000 people across 690 cities in 51 countries on all 7 continents documented more than 2.4 million wildlife observations for the 9th annual community science initiative.More than 65,682 species were observed, with the Mallard Duck 🦆 coming in once again as the most popular around the world and the Sky Lupine retained its title as the most commonly observed species across the Monterey and Santa Cruz County regions. After co-founding and organizing the first-ever City Nature Challenge in 2016 as a friendly competition between the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) and the California Academy of Sciences...
Travis🏴
