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INATURALIST CITY NATURE CHALLENGE 2026 REPORT

INATURALIST CITY NATURE CHALLENGE 2026 REPORT

from John Martin Thanks for your commitment to organizing and participating in this year’s iNaturalist City Nature Challenge. It looks like we had over 40 Canadian cities participating this year and 754 cities world-wide participated! That’s solid representation for Canada once again with our local project being the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD). From April 24–27 2026, over 106,350 people across 754 cities, 61 countries, and 6 continents stepped outside and noticed the nature around them. Together, they made over…

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2023 CITY NATURE CHALLENGE – VANCOUVER AREA

2023 CITY NATURE CHALLENGE – VANCOUVER AREA

Report and Photos by John Martin April 28 2023 – May 01 2023 The City Nature Challenge is an annual event that happens simultaneously on the same dates around the world. Vancouver is now one of well over 400 cities participating worldwide with a total of 41 across Canada alone in 2023. Nature Vancouver held 4 separate walks in our regional parks during this event. The weather held out on almost all days with just a bit of rain on…

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CITY NATURE CHALLENGE – 2022

CITY NATURE CHALLENGE – 2022

Submitted by John Martin – May 10 Update Hello: I thought I would post the results from iNaturalist for this year’s “City Nature Challenge 2022”.Here is the link. City Nature Challenge 2022: Greater Vancouver · iNaturalist Canada For the record, my user id on inaturalist is “NorthVanDad” and as you can see, I was able to post the most observations and the highest species count for this event. There were many great observations besides mine and from all accounts the city of…

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INATURALIST & PHOTOS FROM KAKWA PROVINCIAL PARK

INATURALIST & PHOTOS FROM KAKWA PROVINCIAL PARK

by Bev Ramey These dark days of November and December have been a productive time to spend at my computer, posting plant photos onto the iNaturalist – BC Parks website. The photos are from our summer weeks spent in Kakwa Provincial Park over the past eight years. My husband, Bill, has posted butterfly and other insect photos, as well as bird photos, with more yet to come. The iNaturalist website encourages all to post your nature photos. Two “Project” areas that may interest you are: BC Provincial Parks and Metro Vancouver Regional Parks.  View more photos for Kakwa that Bill and I have posted, from…

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