Good ways to get local community involved in City Nature Challenge?

[dixiedog251]

@hannadv

Do you have community leagues, community associations, etc near you (NOT the same as HOAs!!)? Or could you engage with local community garden groups, “forest school” programs, etc?

I’m an educator at a zoo, so we have the role in our community of teaching and connecting the public to the environment and the wildlife around us. We’re unofficially going to become a hub for our region’s CNC as a local parent group has kickstarted it collaboratively.

@whitneybrook

I think there were people who participated in the in-person activities that never uploaded observations to iNat, but hopefully they still enjoyed it. For those that did post observations, I was monitoring for issues with observations and making sure that they all had at least a broad ID.

That’s totally awesome! I like how the main goal was to get people involved, even if they didn’t end up participating observation-wise. It sounds like a lot of fun :)

Thanks for all the comments all! Not only did you guys give me good ideas but you took my knowledge of CNC a step further

[traianbertau]

Try to approach (macro) photographers and turn them into iNat observers