Setting Goals for 2021

The global City Nature Challenge this year is not being promoted as a global competition to see who can be at the top of the leader board with the best stats for the number participants, observations, and species. It is being promoted as a collaborative event to help people connect with nature and highlight species distribution in urban and surrounding areas.

There are 23 Canadian entries in the CNC this year and we do expect that there will be competition for placement on this leader board! Likewise for the 7 Maritime entries. This means that it is important to share the word beyond our bubbles and encourage people to come out and participate. Hopefully they too will get addicted to iNat. It is a great way to connect with nature.

Now is the time to set personal goals for the CNC2021 - How many species do we hope to find over the 4 days? How many areas will we visit? How many observations can we share?

The stats for the individual 2020 Maritime entries are listed on last years project page - click on the leader board and then toggle through observations/species/observers. Here is the link: https://inaturalist.ca/projects/city-nature-challenge-2020-the-maritimes-umbrella-project

Can we double these numbers in 2021?
10,518 observations
1,241 species
625 Identifiers
393 observers

Last year was a very rough and stressful year for Maritimers especially Nova Scotians but participants were still able to get out into nature during the CNC weekend in late April.

The stats for HRM in 2020 were 4,383 observations, 771 species, 381 Identifiers, and 194 observers.
The stats for HRM in 2019 were 7,648 observations, 888 species, 510 Identifiers, and 239 observers.

Posted on March 25, 2021 07:02 PM by mkkennedy