Intro to iNaturalist for the City Nature Challenge 2025

The Lake Wales Public Library and Lake Wales Family Recreation Center are partnering with this year to partcipate in City Nature Challenge 2025.

This training will help you get started on using the iNaturalist app to document your observations of nature in our area. You don't have to sign up for the Challenge. All observations made on iNaturalist between April 25th and 28th will be added to our area's total. You have until May 4th to finish uploading your observations. The totals will be announced on May 5th. Visit CNC website for more information on the challenge.

Cities around the world collaborate to share observations of nature in the 2025 City Nature Challenge.

Started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), the CNC is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal.

For more information about the City Nature Challenge visit their website.

Host or Publisher Lake Wales Public Library