Conjured up in 2016 as a friendly competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco to document the natural world, the City Nature Challenge has grown into a global fourday event encouraging people to get outside and explore the natural world using the app, iNaturalist.
Thousands of people around Texas participate annually, including in Boerne and the greater San Antonio area.
For those of you who don’t know about iNaturalist, it is an app available on any smartphone that not only helps you with possible identifications of plants and animals. But unlike other identification apps, iNaturalist shares the images and sounds you document with everyone from scientists and natural history book authors to agencies, including our own Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Cibolo Center for Conservation.
