Our Roadmap to 2030Coventry University, councils, parks, and wildlife organisations across the West Midlands work together to promote biodiversity engagement, as part of the City Nature Challenge happening across the world from 24-27 April
The City Nature Challenge is an annual global bioblitz where citizens use a free app (iNaturalist) to discover and document the wildlife on their doorstep. The event runs from 24-27 April and every observation can potentially be used for science and/or conservation. Taking part is easy and fun as you join thousands of observers and identifiers working together worldwide. All verified observations in the region will count towards Warwickshire, Coventry, and Solihull’s total.
Led by Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) and funded by the European Union, the DAISY project promotes biodiversity and equity, and working alongside Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council, The Sherbourne Valley Project, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and others, to lead and support the many City Nature Challenge events, provides opportunities to encourage a wide range of the region’s residents to engage with nature. Many of these councils and organisations have been championing the City Nature Challenge locally for years, and DAISY seeks to learn from these partners what barriers to participation exist, how these may be overcome, and how to encourage longer-term interest in local biodiversity once the bioblitz challenge ends.
Can you help us find more species than we did last year?
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