Niagara Falls and St. Catharines joining communities across the globe in this year's City Nature Challenge
A friendly competition is taking place between St. Catharines and Niagara Falls.
The municipalities are taking part in this year's City Nature Challenge.
Each year, communities are asked to help catalog native plants and animals in a four day blitz.
Local residents can participate by downloading the iNaturalist app, and taking pictures of plants and animals.
Participants will record and submit as many species as possible within city boundaries, followed by a week of identifying what was found using the app.
"We are all ready to get outdoors and explore after a long winter. What better opportunity than to participate in the City Nature Challenge and show off all of our forms of life, plants, animals, insects and more! Let’s get our phones out, and maybe a magnifying glass, if we want to get super-scientific about it, and find all the species we can!" said City of Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati.
This year's challenge is taking place from April 28th until May 1st.
"This year we are asking St. Catharines residents to download the iNaturalist app and use it to log as many photos of plants and animals as they can to develop iNaturalist’s database and also help us win our friendly race with Niagara Falls," said Mayor Mat Siscoe. "The City Nature Challenge is a fun way to connect with nature by becoming citizen scientists for the day. Have fun and help us win!"
Since 2016, over 400 cities across the world have taken part.
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