Members of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) participated in the annual worldwide City Nature Challenge (CNC), jointly organised by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences from 26 to 29 April. The University outshone the six other tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and Macau, achieving a victory in the Inter-University CNC with a total of 1,271 observations covering 380 species.

The CNC is an international effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It is a bioblitz-style competition, in which cities compete against each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people. During the challenge, participants from 160 cities competed against each other by taking photographs of nature (trees, plants, insects, birds, fungi, reptiles, etc.) with an education mobile app, called iNaturalist.

This year, Hong Kong placed second in terms of the number of species observed in the CNC, with 1,128 people capturing a total of 31,144 observations of nature on 3,596 different species. For more information about the CNC, please visit http://citynaturechallenge.org. Please click here to enjoy and learn more about the beautiful nature discoveries by the EdUHK community.

(Photo credit: Dr Li Wai-chin,  Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies, EdUHK)