City Nature Challenge

Participate in this year’s City Nature Challenge by using iNaturalist to identify plants and animals you see in FGBNMS during this world-wide bioblitz.
For the first time ever, data from the sanctuary will count as part of the Houston/Galveston region.

Started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their cities. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 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 not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.