Jon SullivanMay 4, 2025

We’ve just passed 100,000(!!) observations in all our City Nature Challenge events for Ōtautahi-Christchurch, 2019–2025. That’s a lot! We’ve also passed 2019 as our event with the most species and passed the 2024 record of most observations (we’re at 23,518). The last record to fall is 2024’s participants. We need just *five more* people to upload a photo from last weekend. Prod your friends. 😄

https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-otautahi-christchurch-all-years

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City Nature Challenge Ōtautahi/Christchurch: all years

This project gathers together all of the observations from the Hoake ki te Taiao-City Nature Challenge events at Ōtautahi-Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Show threadRai
Managed to get my wife to submit a terrible photo that incidentally contained a plant and that happened to have been taken during the #CNC2025 dates... HEY, IT COUNTS, haha
May 4, 2025 at 10:15amWeb
Show threadJon SullivanMay 5, 2025

@rai Sweet! We’re one observer under our 2024 record so that’s a great effort.

The tallies are coming through, and, WOW. Globally, almost 100,000 people in the participating #CityNatureChallenge cities over just 4-days made over *3.1 million observations* of *72,300 species*. Those numbers are so big it’s just silly. Too epic!

I’m super pleased to have been part of Aotearoa-NZ’s contribution of 61,593 observations of 4,615 species.

https://inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-aotearoa-new-zealand
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City Nature Challenge 2025

Join in the 2025 City Nature Challenge! Make observations of wild plants and animals 25-28 April, and take part in one of the largest community science events in the world while helping us better understand – and therefore, take care of – nature that lives in and around urban areas. Not in a participating city? No problem! Join our Global Project to have your observations count for the CNC no matter where you are. And consider signing up as an organizer for the 2026 CNC so your city can be an official CNC city! Not all cities use iNaturalist for the City Nature Challenge; you can find the full list of cities and their preferred platforms on the City Nature Challenge website.

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Show threadRaiMay 5, 2025
@joncounts next year I gotta wear a shirt that says "Ask me about the City Nature Challenge" haha
Show threadJon SullivanMay 5, 2025
@rai Great idea. I have a small metal badge with that on it but t-shirts would take it to the next level.
Show threadJon SullivanMay 5, 2025
@rai Scratch that. Thanks to new user lilygrace3456 just adding her observations from last weekend, we now just squeaked up to match our 2024 record. Super.