Nature lovers and enthusiasts, it’s time to go outside and explore our own backyard! Participate in Edmonton’s annual biodiversity photo challenge.
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Inspired by the City Nature Challenge—a global urban biodiversity “contest”, where cities compete against one another to monitor biodiversity within their cities—the Alberta BiodiverCity Challenge invites Edmontonians to take part in a city-wide BioBlitz* using NatureLynx, a new citizen science app brought to you by the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.
Between June 10–13, join our city’s naturalists, species experts, and environmental groups in documenting as many species as you can! Simply upload your photos of birds, plants, mammals, moss, lichen, mushrooms and insects to NatureLynx. Your contributions will be used to help understand more about the species that call
our city home.
*A bioblitz is a communal citizen-science effort to record as many species within a designated location and time period as possible.
*Given the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, activities will be adjusted to accommodate recommended social distancing measures.
We’ve highlighted a few biodiversity “hot-spots”. How many can you visit?
*A project page for the Edmonton BiodiverCity Challenge has also been generated on iNaturalist
Here we will feature some of our favorite sightings shared to the BiodiverCity Challenge mission on NatureLynx!
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The #EdmontonBiodiverCityChallenge is now on iNaturalist! Join the project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/edmonton-biodivercity-challenge-2020 Note: Please share sightings to either NatureLynx OR iNaturalist. Please do not duplicate sightings......
Jordan Bell
Citizen Science Coordinator
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
P: 780-492-4312