Diario del proyecto CNC - The Education University of Hong Kong

We put in an amazing showing for Hong Kong, contributing more than 1,200 observations just from our little (but nature-filled) campus-- great for the CNC, and a great baseline for understanding what kinds of species we have on campus in April 2019! We had 12 volunteer observers this year, despite the holiday-- let's see if we can beat that next year! :) So far we well out-performed the other campuses, but let's see if they upload anything new from last night. :)

At the moment we have a possible 329 species from our campus! Experts will now be busy IDing your observations, with their final deadline being May 6th 9am Hong Kong time, so keep an eye on your observations to see if you need to withdraw an original incorrect ID (don't worry about it, always something new to learn in the natural world!!) and to see what kinds of species you discovered!

Note that the notification system is not working at the moment, because of the massive CNC activity, but hopefully that will be up online soon.

For moths, if you put them in the project "Hong Kong Moths" they will be found & IDed more quickly by the relevant experts.

If you or your friends have any leftover photos from the weekend, please be sure to upload them by May 5th at the latest (but earlier is better to give the experts more time).

Looking forward to our final tally!

Sunday & Monday nights, last chances to contribute moths to the CNC! Meet us at 9:30pm in front of Robert Black Hall.

re: the Inter-University Nature Challenge:
(1) EdUHK's CNC Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/291676505089405/
(2) EdUHK's CNC iNat page (this page): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cnc-the-education-university-of-hong-kong
(3) RANKING: Hong Kong's Inter-University Challenge CNC ranking page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cnc-inter-university-city-nature-challenge
(4) EdUHK's iNaturalist PLACE page, for seeing biodiversity pre- and post-CNC: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/education-university-of-hong-kong-eduhk-hk

re: the Worldwide (Inter-)City Nature Challenge:
(1) Hong Kong's CNC Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2120153251628093/
(2) Hong Kong's CNC iNat page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-hong-kong
(3) RANKING: City Nature Challenge iNat ranking page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019

Resource people:
EdUHK students/staff available to answer your questions! Find us on Facebook, or message us on iNaturalist:
Emma: iNaturalist ID is "eekb"
Mickey: iNaturalist ID is "waiki1"
Ruby: iNaturalist ID is "vingkwanchu"
May: iNaturalist ID is "mayyamon"

Hong Kong-- and EdU-- need you!

Let's document the amazing diversity on our campus and in Hong Kong! After our incredible showing last year, Hong Kong has been entered in the City Nature Challenge again and I hope that you will be able to take part in it.

From Friday, April 26, to Monday, April 29, take a photo (an "observation) of any natural life and upload it to iNat to participate in the City Nature Challenge, a free, volunteer Citizen Science project with over 170 participating cities around the world.

Hong Kong's CNC-HK iNaturalist 'project' page can be found on this link: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-hong-kong

And this Facebook page for the CNC-HK has great resources and info for beginners: https://www.facebook.com/events/2120153251628093/

Every person who takes a photo helps naturalists find out what kinds of animals, plants, and NATURE are on our planet now-- and how it might change later.

EdU's campus is already known as a haven of diversity. Nature is right under your nose-- just take a look for it and see! See our location for what's been seen recently here: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/education-university-of-hong-kong-eduhk-hk

Hong Kong will be competing with over 170 cities worldwide and all participants have to do is take photographs of nature (trees, plants, insects, birds, fungi, reptiles etc) and upload them onto iNaturalist. That's it!!!

NO REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY AND IT’S FREE!

Please join in and help increase our understanding, awareness, and enjoyment of biodiversity!