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The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is originally organized by the California Academy of Sciences and Natural History Museum Los Angeles. It is an ongoing crowd sourced, citizen science project primarily designed to document urban biodiversity and engage city residents in the nature around them (also known as a bioblitz). The project is framed as a common effort between cities to see which can make the most observations, identify the most species, or have the most participants. It started in 2016 and has now expanded to more than 400 areas worldwide.
The goals of the CNC are to:
- Connect people in urban/metro areas to their local nature
- Connect people to each other: build community in person & online around local nature
- Collect urban biodiversity data available to use for science, management, and conservation
- Grow volunteer biodiversity documentation globally
- Have fun through some friendly competition!
The Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History is the national coordinator of this event and IMS has decided to join this initiative and invite all the members to take part in this bioblitz.
In order to capture our observations, we will use the iNaturalist smartphone application. Please make sure you download it before the event and create your personal account.
When? Friday 28th of April, from 12h15 to 14h
12h15 – 13h Lunch & Learn
Presentation: How can your company preserve biodiversity ? By Capitals Coalition
13h – 14h Walk and identify fauna and flora with iNaturalist
With a biodiversity expert of the National Museum of Natural History.
Where? Meeting point at 12.15 pm in Hamilius in front of Atelier Steffen. Group descent to the Pétrusse gardens where the workshop will take place.
For whom? Employees who are part of an IMS member organisation
Event in French and English.
In collaboration with the Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History
