Created by community science staff Lila Higgins at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) and Alison Young and Rebecca Johnson at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It’s a bioblitz-style competition where cities are in a friendly contest with each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people.
What is it?
Rogers Center tossed our proverbial hat into the ring of the City Nature Challenge (CNC) in 2023.
Community Science at Rogers Center
Because our “city” is so small, we expanded our “city” to include three counties: Madison, Chenango and Otsego.
On the days of the competition (Friday-Monday of the last weekend of April), anyone who was out in these counties uploading photographs of the plants and animals they saw in those three counties became part of the competition.
For our first year, our results were not too bad: we had 33 observers upload 783 observations, which documented 326 species.
But we can do better!
Join us April 26-29, 2024 for the next CNC. Stay tuned right here for more details.
