Between April 24th to 27th Nottingham will be taking part in the international competition, City Nature Challenge 2020. We will be competing with 266 cities from across the world to record as much wildlife as possible.
The Nottinghamshire Wildlife City Local Group and Nottingham Urban Wildlife Scheme is leading the City Nature Challenge 2020 for Nottingham.
The challenge takes place in 2 parts:
April 24th to 27th - a variety of public events will be held as well as encouraging individual activities to record wildlife from lichens to larks and from fungi to foxgloves.
April 28th to May 3rd - organising and verifying the wildlife sightings to ensure that they are included in our tally!
In 2019 Leicester recorded 831 species – can we do better?
There will be events happening all over the City of Nottingham, keep checking our events page where we will add them as they are confirmed.
During the City Nature Challenge we will be using iNaturalist, a free app available for Android and Apple devices. For more information visit the iNaturalist website where you will find details of all the City Nature Challenge events taking place across the world and lots of help and advice on using the app and the website.
Our project is the 'Nottingham City Nature Challenge 2020'
We suggest downloading the iNaturalist App now and practice recording wildlife around you. That way you will be ready to go on 24 April 2020.
If you don’t have access to a smart phone or tablet you can also get involved by writing down everything you see in your local park, nature reserve, greenspace, or garden!
You will need to let us know enough information so we can identify what you saw and where
What you saw: e.g. Waxwing
Where you saw it: e.g. Woodthorpe Park or behind BT offices Hucknall Road or give the postcode
When you saw it: Saturday 25 April 10 am
Any observations: Feeding in a group on rowan trees;
All records will be collected and stored with our partners and where possible passed to the National Biodiversity Network to be recorded on the NBN Atlas. Your help in recording will inform our understanding of Nottingham City's wildlife.
Ways to be involved: Download the iNaturalist App and record wildlife
Help Identify the sightings on iNaturalist
Help us upload ‘paper’ records sent to us between 28 April and 3 May 2020.
For any more information contact the Nottinghamshire Wildlife City Local group at nwtcitygroup@gmail.com