Join the City Nature Challenge 2021 "Chicago Metro"

On April 23, Darien Garden Club will partner with Indian Prairie Library to promote the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge. This will be a up zoom webinar (sign up at IPPL.info/630-887-8760) at 7 PM for the public that will encourage everyone to participate in the bioblitz on April 30th to May 3rd .

Join participants from over 350 cities around the world for the City Nature Challenge by sharing your observations of wild plants and animals in the Chicago Metro area between April 30th & May 3rd. Your observations become data that helps scientists better understand and protect nature for all of us. Learn how to take part at

Website: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge

iNaturalist Project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge- 2021-chicago-metro

A BioBlitz, also written without capitals as bioblitz, is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a continuous time period (e.g., usually 24 hours). (from Wikipedia)

There is a public component to many BioBlitzes, with the goal of getting the public interested in biodiversity. To encourage more public participation, these BioBlitzes are often held in urban parks or nature reserves close to cities.[1]

We challenge everyone to put Darien nature on the map!