City Nature Challenge

City Nature Challenge 2025

Connect with Nature and Other Citizen Scientists

Help discover and document Richmond's plants and animals by participating in the City Nature Challenge 2025. This will be Richmond’s sixth time participating in this global initiative that encourages friendly competition between cities to make the most observations of biodiversity.

Participation is easy:
1. Download the free iNaturalist app to a mobile device.
2. Join the Richmond community project page: City Nature Challenge 2025: Richmond, BC.
3. Use the app. Turn location data on while recording photos and sounds of wild plants and animals in Richmond between Friday, April 25 to Monday, April 28, 2025.

All residents who participate will have three chances to win a City of Richmond reusable street banner bag:
• Four banner bags will go to participants randomly drawn
• Three banner bags will go to three participants with the most observations
• Three banner bags will go to three participants with the most species observed

Participants can track the community’s progress on the Richmond Project page during and after the event to see what was discovered. They can also have fun tracking results from other Canadian cities through a national initiative hosted by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

Ways to learn more:
Visit iNaturalist for video tutorials to help you get started.

Results will be announced on Monday, May 5, 2025.

Go team Richmond!