Nature lovers and enthusiasts, it’s time to go outside and explore our own backyard! Participate in the Edmonton region’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 Edmonton BiodiverCity Challenge invites residents from Leduc to St. Albert (and everywhere in-between) to take part in a photo BioBlitz using iNaturalist or NatureLynx, a citizen science app brought to you by the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.
Between June 10–13, join our region’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 iNaturalist or NatureLynx. Your contributions will be used to help understand more about the species that call our region 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.
*Project pages for the 2021 Edmonton and Calgary BiodiverCity Challenge have 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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Jordan Bell
Citizen Science Coordinator
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
P: 780-492-4312