	{"id":94560,"date":"2024-04-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=94560"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:45:26","slug":"citizen-science-event-to-take-over-geelong-and-surf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/citizen-science-event-to-take-over-geelong-and-surf-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen science event to take over Geelong and Surf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Geelong Field Naturalists Club is encouraging residents across Greater Geelong and the Surf Coast to take part in the world&#8217;s biggest citizen science event next week.<\/p>\n<p>The City Nature Challenge takes the form of a bioblitz-style battle, with cities across the globe competing against each other to see who can document the greatest number of nature observations over a four-day period.<\/p>\n<p>This year the competition will run from April 26-29.<\/p>\n<p>To participate, community members and citizen scientists need only photograph the flora and fauna they see and upload it to the iNaturalist app or website.<\/p>\n<p>Everything from birds, insects and wildlife to plants, fungi and seaweed can be recorded as part of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Local challenge coordinator Peter Crowcroft said the competition was a great way to get the community outside and engaging with nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great opportunity to go out and learn about what else lives where you live,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d certainly love to think that it gives people more of a sense of connection, more of a sense of place, to where they live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/GFNC_02697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The world&#8217;s largest citizen science event returns on Friday, April 26. 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