As I am on Monday, April 28 th on the Island of Cres in Croatia with a group of herpetologists, I will also register at the “global project”.
Perhaps the administrators of City Nature Contest 2025 of Rijeka can extend their chosen area to the adjacent islands of the Kvarner region. It would also be nice if there will be created also some groups in the area of Istria (Italy-Triest, Slovenia-Koper and the Istrian peninsula in Croatia) and in the state of Slovenia. I wish that at least one competitor exists in every member state of the European Union.
And it might be a wise decision to extend the region “Ciudad de Panama” to the zone of the Canal of Panama. And to create a group in Greenland, as long as it is possible.
There is little point in having a CNC project for a particular city/region if there is nobody with local contacts who is spreading the word and getting people to participate. I don’t see any value in having a region represented merely for the sake of it being represented.
CNC groups are not organized centrally. They are organized by local coordinators, who are also the people who decide the boundaries of a particular community.
If you think that there are areas where people would be interested in participating but there is no project this year, then the best way to make sure that something happens in the future would not be to post in the forum, which only a fraction of users read, but to get in touch with people in the regions in question and find out whether there is interest – or to become involved as an organizer yourself.
I know all what you were saying. As there are a lot ofiNatters reading in the forum-many more do not visit it -I guess there is a chance that somebody is inspired by my verbal contribution for the next year. In the areas I mentioned precisely as there is Istria in Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, there are a lot of active iNaturalists. I am embedded inside the Graz bis Vulkanland group as an ordinary member. So let this thread just speak for itself. .