St. Louis City Nature Challenge

Thanks to everyone who made an observation on iNaturalist for this year's City Nature Challenge! We made almost 9,000 observations and were able to get 31% of those to research-grade status! 🦔
Worldwide, there were over 76,000 species documented and over 100,000 observers across 754 cities and 61 countries - how exciting that St. Louis gets to be part of something so big! 😁

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2026 🦅🐍🐛

Final numbers will be announced this Wednesday, but together we made over 8,000 observations of observations of plant, animal, and fungi species in the St. Louis Region!

📸Check out these awesome observations made by one of our top observers, Michael Wohlstadter

👀 Did you know you can use your expertise to help identify observations made on iNaturalist?

Make sure to check on our CNC iNat project and help identify some species! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2026-st-louis?tab=observations

We had a blast at our City Nature Challenge bioblitz last Saturday in Forest Park! Thanks to our partners River des Peres Watershed Coalition, Forest Park Forever, and Missouri Dept. of Conservation for making this event and the whole weekend possible! 😁🌳

Today is the LAST DAY to make observations in iNaturalist for the 2025 City Nature Challenge! Get outside and contribute to biodiversity research today! 🦦🌺

Check out the observations your neighbors have made at our St. Louis iNaturalist project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2026-st-louis

We’re off and running for this year’s City Nature Challenge! So many observations are coming in to our St. Louis Region iNaturalist project, have you added yours yet? 🦎

Just open iNaturalist, take a photo of a plant or animal, and be part of this global bioblitz contributing to science. 🤳 Check out this great picture one of you took last year! 📸

Special shoutout to our event partners who help make this weekend possible, Missouri Botanical Garden / EarthWays Center, Missouri Dept. of Conservation, and City of St. Louis Government

🐞🐝The City Nature Challenge begins TODAY! 🌻🦔

Join your neighbors in documenting the biodiversity in the St. Louis region. Grab your phone, download the iNaturalist app, and upload photos of nature between now and Monday, April 27th!
This challenge is a great opportunity for people of all ages to get outside and explore the environment around you - what are you waiting for! 🐟🍄

Together, with 668 other cities across 6 continents, we broke the record for most observations for the City Nature Challenge, with over 3.3 million observations! 🏆

Thanks to everyone who participated in the St. Louis Region, we were able to make over 10,000 observations and get 37% of those observations to research-grade status! 😃