This year the Gwent Levels is part of an epic, global citizen science project to collect information about our local wildlife…
In 2021, Cardiff, Newport and the Gwent Levels along with UK cities are collaborating with 200+ cities across the world to find and record as much wildlife as possible to help track how nature is bouncing back this spring!
We are helping to celebrate the big international Challenge weekend on April 30 – May 3 with a series of online and self-led activities, when all 200+ cities will be active at once.
Taking part is easy!
Simply download the iNaturalist app to your smartphone or tablet and use it to upload photos of any wildlife you see from your windows, gardens and during your daily outdoor exercise.
You don’t have to be an expert, as the app will give you some handy suggestions of what it thinks you’ve seen, and you can join the iNaturalist online community to learn more about the wildlife around you. Best of all, the records you submit will help inform local and national conservation work.
The UK City Nature Challenge is part of a global citizen science project. Started in 2016 between just two organisations the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences, and growing across the whole US in 2017, since 2018 cities from all four continents have taken part. Last year, in 2020, over 822,000 wildlife records were submitted across the globe over four days.
