GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - If you like to photograph and experience nature, your observations can be used to put the Garden Route on the international bio and tourism maps, and also record important information regarding natural life around our cities.
The City Nature Challenge is an international competition that aims to make the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people on iNaturalist (also known as iNat) during a four-day period from 24 to 27 April.
George tourism manager Joan Shaw says taking part in the competition is among its efforts to make George and the Garden Route famous as a nature lover's destination.
"If we could win this challenge, it would mean a huge amount of free publicity for our destination. George Tourism would like to challenge you go get as many photographs over the weekend of 24 to 27 April as you can, and then register them online before 3 May. Get a posse together and figure it out! Please spread the word among everyone who takes photos of nature, loves nature, lives in nature – so basically everyone you know in the Garden Route!"
The city to beat is Cape Town, that won the competition in two of the three categories in 2019, "Most Observations" (53 763) and "Most Species" (4 588). San Francisco in the United States won the "Most Participants" with 1 947 participants.
The City Nature Challenge is organised by the citizens science teams of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences.
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