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Contribute to conservation, document wildlife during City Nature Challenge

Ready to notice nature? Join the City Nature Challenge, a community science event to find and document urban wildlife, beginning April 25 across Nebraska.

The global challenge is a chance to look for nature in urban areas and learn about the animal and plant life discovered there.

Using the free iNaturalist app, participants photograph nature and upload their observations to the app between April 25-28. Then help identify observations between April 29-May 4.

Wildlife can be any wild plant, animal, fungi or other evidence of life, such as scat, fur or tracks. Participants can even document species through their windows.

Though anyone who joins the CNC global iNaturalist project may participate, Nebraska also offers a Lincoln-Lancaster County Project for local observations.

Visit OutdoorNebraska.gov/CityNatureChallenge for more information about the City Nature Challenge.

The City Nature Challenge, launched in 2016 as a competition between two U.S. cities, is now an international competition to document nature and better understand urban biodiversity. In 2024, more than 83,000 people participated, recording than 2.4 million observations from across the globe. Learn more at CityNatureChallenge.org.


About Jerry Kane

Jerry Kane is the news manager with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. He can be contacted at jerry.kane@nebraska.gov or 402-471-5008.

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