If you’re a budding bird watcher, naturist or citizen scientist then this one’s for you…
This weekend, April 25 to 28, Terra, Expo City Dubai, is proud to host the City Nature Challenge in collaboration with Emirates Nature-WWF, Dubai Holding Entertainment, and Nature Wave. This worldwide initiative encourages global participation and local exploration. The real-time data supports scientists in protecting urban biodiversity.
All you have to do is download the iNaturalist app. It’s a science based app that allows you to snap pictures of the plants and animals you find around the world, sharing them with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to help scientists find and use your data.
Whether you are sipping coffee on your balcony, walking through a park, or lounging in your backyard, you can join the challenge by photographing any wild plant or animal and uploading it to the iNaturalist app between April 25 and 28. Whether it’s the chirping of purple sunbirds that you spot, or the quick scurry of a sand gecko, the flutter of salmon Arab butterflies or the rustle of miswak bushes, Dubai is teeming with life just waiting to be noticed.
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