Final results from the City Nature Challenge 2024!

It has been a great experience to be a part of the first ever participation of York in the City Nature Challenge 2024 competing against 691 cities worldwide to make biodiversity observations! A huge thank you to everyone for your observations over the course of the four days of the inaugural York City Nature Challenge! This event could not have happened without everyone contributing in so many different ways from making observations to putting on events. The final results for the competition have come in and York has done amazingly well!

On the UK Leaderboard, we met all our goals to be in the Top 3 for each category! In the number of observers, York came in third place with 221 people making observations, only 9 people behind second place. York made a total of 12,833 observations and came in a very close second place (by only 41 observations)! And York got GOLD for the total number of species observed with 1487 different species! We came in first place by a wide margin with more than 147 species than our nearest competitor. Our most common observation was the 7-Spot Lady Beetle!

In the Global Leaderboard, York has done an amazing job of representing our part of the world! We placed 47th out of 691 cities, easily within the top 10% of competing cities. A fantastic job for our first year ever!

Global Total Observations 2,436,844
Global Number of Species 65,682
Global Total Observers 83,528

We look forward to next year - York City Nature Challenge 2025 will be from 25-28th April 2025!

Posted on May 7, 2024 05:48 PM by johnt77