City Nature Challenge 2024 is live!
Join EcoSpark for City Nature Challenge 2024, April 26th - 29th!
The City Nature Challenge is back again this year! And we need your help to win the title of the wildest city in Canada!
Please join our project page City Nature Challenge 2024: Toronto and GTA and help us take it over the top. Special thanks to all observers who took part last year!
The City Nature Challenge is an annual four-day global bioblitz where cities across the world compete to see which city can gather the greatest number of wildlife observations, find the most species and engage the most people in their community using the iNaturalist platform. EcoSpark is once again proud to be the regional organizer for the city of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
The City Nature Challenge is an annual four-day global event where cities across the world compete to see which city can gather the greatest number of wildlife observations, find the most species and engage the most people at the event. EcoSpark is once again proud to be the regional organizer for the city of Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
Worldwide, over 1.8 million wildlife observations were made last year, making City Nature Challenge 2023, the biggest one yet!
Help us surpass 2 million observations this year, and put Toronto and GTA on the map to win the title of the wildest city in Canada!
Share this event with your friends, families and colleagues. Get as many people involved as possible and help our city win!
INVITING ALL SCHOOLS TO PARTICIPATE
Inviting all schools in the GTA to participate in City Nature Challenge as we track biodiversity across Toronto & GTA to win the title of the wildest city in Canada. Get your students outside and collect nature observations using the iNaturalist platform during the Challenge!
We’ll recognize the school community that submits the most number of observations and more. Earn awards for your contributions!
Check out the education toolkit for tips and ideas about engaging your students in outdoor learning and exploration of nature in schoolyards, parks and nearby green spaces.
Visit https://www.ecospark.ca/citynaturechallenge to register.
WIN AMAZING PRIZES
Sign up for EcoSpark’s Newsletter to get access to free activities, exciting offers and updates to connect with nature near you in this year’s City Nature Challenge. Sign up at www.ecospark.ca to stand a chance to win prizes from Canon and Urban Nature Store!
All participants are encouraged to use the Urban Nature Store Discount Code Included at https://www.ecospark.ca/citynaturechallenge as they register.
Other prizes to be announced!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN CITY NATURE CHALLENGE
OBSERVE LOCAL WILDLIFE
Safely explore nature on trails or from wherever you are in the GTA by finding wild species close to home. Even watching birds from your window is helpful! Take a picture or record a sound of what you find using a camera and upload it to iNaturalist (users must be 13 years or older to make an account). Be sure to note the location.
Record observations anytime April 26 - 29 and submit by May 5, 2024. Encourage your friends and neighbours to help out! View photos on the City Nature Challenge: Toronto and GTA project.
Be aware of human and wildlife safety at all times and explore natural areas responsibly with ethical wildlife photography. To support biodiversity research, focus on insects, birds, weeds, and other wild plants, animals and fungi (rather than cultivated species like garden flowers).
SHARE YOUR PHOTOS
Submit observations by uploading them to your iNaturalist account (on your computer or with the app). Join EcoSpark’s iNaturalist page for fascinating biodiversity info and local updates!
Check back on iNaturalist April 30 - May 5 to help identify what species we found. No special skills are required to get involved in exploring the data! EcoSpark will showcase local results and species totals for this collaborative global event.
LEARN ABOUT LOCAL BIODIVERSITY
Dig deeper to explore the plants and animals that share our city! EcoSpark educator resources and City Nature Challenge Education Toolkit help teachers and students make curriculum connections and practice outdoor inquiry.
Book a remote interactive EcoSpark session to engage your grade 6-12 class in citizen science activities you can use to monitor wildlife in school grounds or try at home. We also help corporate and volunteer groups engage with their local environment. Our programs help you learn about and improve local habitat. Subscribe to our newsletter (below) for updates.
Let’s support even more diverse species for next year’s count! Together we can steward the GTA’s ecosystems that sustain us all.
Ready to get started? Head to https://www.ecospark.ca/citynaturechallenge ...and head outside!
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