ONE WEEK TO GO!!!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you're all excited about the CITY NATURE CHALLENGE and are busy getting your phone and camera batteries charged! Once again, Hong Kong has entered this competition with over 170 cities worldwide and all participants have to do is take photographs of nature (trees, plants, insects, birds, fungi, fish, reptiles, rocky shore/mangrove sps etc) and upload them onto iNaturalist. That's it!!!

Competition Dates: Friday 26th April - Monday 29th April
Identification Dates: Friday 26th April - Sunday 5th May

You have been tagged as you are one of the most prolific iNaturalist observers and identifiers in Hong Kong and I would love for you to get involved! Here are the targets for this year (with 2018 results for comparison).

Observations: 35,000. (2018: 20,268. 8th/68 cities)
Species Logged: 3,000. (2018: 2932. 4th/68 cities)
Observers: 3,500. (2018: 755. 7th/68 cities)

IDENTIFICATION PARTY

As many of you are experts in your field, I’d like to invite you to an ‘ID Party’ to further identify observations on iNaturalist and engage with participants online.

Date: Thursday 2nd May, 2019
Time: Anytime between 10am - 6pm
Venue: WWF – Central Visitor Centre. 1 Tramway Path, Central.
Registration: https://forms.gle/vhj5QGB8769Wyunt7
Refreshments: Food and Drinks provided.

This is important as it encourages participants to continue using iNaturalist and develop their interest in local biodiversity. I have budget to compensate you for your time during this session plus I'll have some food and drink to keep us going. Should be fun! In the registration link, please let me know when you may come and how long you can stay for. Please remember to bring your laptops!

LINKED PROJECTS

The projects below are specific to locations and organisations yet their observations will all count towards the Hong Kong totals. I would really appreciate it if we could keep an eye on these 'bitesize' projects so that we can manage responses effectively. :)

Also, Macau will be joining in the fun this year and I'm sure they would appreciate any assistance.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-macau

Once again, I realise this will be a massive undertaking with lots of observations being uploaded at once yet I really hope you all can get involved, either by going out and taking pictures, identifying them or both.

This is a great chance to show the world the amazing biodiversity we have.

Cheers!
Shaun

Email: s1martinhk@gmail.com
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/2120153251628093
Main CNC page: www.citynaturechallenge.org

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