surrey-bc_biodiversity's Journal

Check out our event page and share widely: https://www.surrey.ca/news-events/events/city-nature-challenge, get your iNaturalist peeps to follow Surrey's account, and join our CNC 2023 project to get updates on partner events happening during the CNC.

Consider organizing a mini BioBlitz in your neighbourhood, with your school, church, temple or other community organization.

And remember it's not just about the 4 days of capturing observations, the remainder of the CNC, from May 2-7 is for getting your observations uploaded, and properly ID'd. You can help other iNaturalist observers in Surrey to properly identify their observations. Maybe even host an ID party!

Correctly ID'd observations that get to research grade provide critical information on the diversity and distribution of plants, wildlife and fungi across the City!

p.s., looking for some great resources to connect to nature in Surrey, check out our Resources for Outdoor Learning page! https://www.surrey.ca/parks-recreation/surrey-parks/park-programs/resources-outdoor-learning

Check out our event page and share widely: https://www.surrey.ca/news-events/events/city-nature-challenge, get your iNaturalist peeps to follow Surrey's account, and join our CNC 2023 project to get updates on partner events happening during the CNC.

Consider organizing a mini BioBlitz in your neighbourhood, with your school, church, temple or other community organization.

And remember it's not just about the 4 days of capturing observations, the remainder of the CNC, from May 2-7 is for getting your observations uploaded, and properly ID'd. You can help other iNaturalist observers in Surrey to properly identify their observations. Maybe even host an ID party!

Correctly ID'd observations that get to research grade provide critical information on the diversity and distribution of plants, wildlife and fungi across the City!

p.s., looking for some great resources to connect to nature in Surrey, check out our Resources for Outdoor Learning page! https://www.surrey.ca/parks-recreation/surrey-parks/park-programs/resources-outdoor-learning

Fungi is that beautiful, easy to photograph kingdom that is getting more attention on iNaturalist. We have over 4,000 observations of fungi for Surrey, of which ~1000 are still in need of ID. That's a lot of possible shrooms in need of curation attention, especially ones that may be rare!

The FunDiS West Coast Rare Fungi Challenge project is a great way to help get our local coastal fungi identified, and contribute to important conservation research and efforts. You can find out more about FunDis here, and consider joining the west coast and North American projects on iNaturalist:

https://fundis.org/
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/fundis-biodiversity-database
https://inaturalist.ca/projects/fundis-west-coast-rare-fungi-challenge-ef75a1f8-d488-48f4-ae6c-d0a8c64a9fb3