Proud sponsors of City Nature Challenge, find out what we achieved.
06/05/2022
Alongside Redcliffe & Temple BID, we sponsored City Nature Challenge, an awesome global science project with over 400 cities around the world taking part to collect information about local wildlife.
Across the four day project, Bristol and Bath residents were encouraged to record as much wildlife as possible and engage with their natural environment.
We hosted City Nature Challenge hubs at Queen Square and Castle Park to teach visitors how to use the iNaturalist app to record sightings, and organised nature walks led by ecologist Cat Baker or naturalist & author Ed Drewitt.
On Friday 29 April, four walks took place at Queen Square to help residents and employees from local businesses to look for and record urban wildlife. Our Queen Square Hub also provided a space for an eDNA workshop to identify our local wildlife, run by the University of Bristol, and led by scientists from the University.
On Saturday 30 April, visitors met at our Castle Park City Nature Hub to learn about the challenge and how to take part. Two nature walks were carried out which received great feedback including how much people enjoyed the walks, and how they helped them to appreciate the city in a different way by making them aware of various animal and plant species in the city centre.
Another eDNA workshop took place to explore the wildlife in the city, by using a science experimentation in action.
Overall, the Bristol & Bath City region recorded a mega 7,970 observations and 1,290 species during this year’s City Nature Challenge, taking 2nd place in the UK.
The city region recorded 392 observers, taking first place in the UK.
Well done and thank you to all those who got involved.
