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 3 million observations in iNaturalist and listed 76,422+ species, including more than 5,688 that are rare, threatened, or endangered. 

Canadian top three area results

Observations	1) Metro Vancouver Regional District	26,368	19th global ranking
	2) Greater Victoria	22,540	24th
	3) Toronto GTA	12,523	49th
Species	1) Greater Victoria	1,873	35th
	2) Metro Vancouver Regional District	1,757	43rd
	3) Toronto GTA	1,174	89th
Observers	1) Toronto GTA	813	27th
	2) Metro Vancouver Regional District	716	35th
	3) Greater Victoria	644	41st

Over the past three years we have consistently ranked in first or second place in Canada with Victoria being our main rival. Congratulations to everyone for a great contribution to building our biodiversity data and hopefully having a great time connecting with nature!

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Here is the full City Nature Challenge report:
https://www.inaturalist.ca/projects/city-nature-challenge-canada-2026-defi-nature-urbaine