I’m helping to organize a couple of public bioblitzes for the City Nature Challenge this year. Each will have a handful of experienced iNat users leading groups, and an unknown number of visitors. We have people sign up in advance but the number that arrives can be very different. I’ve done a bit of…

My apologies if you’ve already seen it, but iNat’s Help page has a BioBlitz Guide , which is a good start.

Thank you! I had not seen it, but the information therein is familiar to me. I guess I’m looking more for the finer lessons about what works well during the blitz itself. The technical side of things iNat makes easy, and broad recruitment and logistics I have well in hand, but I have room for improv…

Any ongoing natural disaster cancels. I am confident iNat will not schedule downtime during the City Nature Challenge, so that artificial disaster I won’t worry about. I do, however, worry that the COVID-19 epidemic may crest here about the time of the City Nature Challenge, and that could certainl…

Hi, I’m organising a mini bioblitz for 26 April ( https://trail.bioburbage.org.uk ) and will watch this thread with interest. It’s part of an ongoing project and won’t be part of the City Nature Challenge, but maybe we’ll raise enough interest to take part next year. I’ve already set up a place and o…

I’m not really an export about this, having been to just 3 bioblitzes that were all small affairs, but here’s my two cents: make sure you have enough people who already know how to use the app and iNat in general; it may help to set up a workshop on it either immediately before or at least the wee…

Personally I do not see the meaning in those bioblitzes where the user with the highest number of observations wins. This is not the right way to make citizen closer to nature. Apart this, these are the tips I feel I can suggest: encourage participants to observe wild organisms and, possibly, to …

My tips: Involve the locals from the very beginning Tread lightly (actively minimise the impact your event has on the environment) Make it fun (stories are cool!) Encourage everyone to explore new ways to see things (and that includes the scientists!)

Thank you all. Those are good tips. @kiwifergus , what do you mean by Make it fun (stories are cool!) Encourage everyone to explore new ways to see things (and that includes the scientists!) Examples please!

[image] kiwifergus: Make it fun (stories are cool!) I’m just an amateur iNatter… “resourcefully challenged”, but very passionate about seeing as much of what is out there as I can. So in preparing for an upcoming bioblitz, I investigated purchasing a professional moth trap. NZ$600 for a reaso…

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