Final Results!
Our amazing final tallies for the City Nature Challenge were: 17549 observations, 2377 species, 312 participants! A short while ago we received a spreadsheet from the central organisers summarising the results. We'll dig into these in more detail as soon as we can (there are so many different ways to look at the data!), but in the meantime, here are some highlights:
Overall, out of 159 cities that participated worldwide, Christchurch was:
16th for number of observations
13th for number of species
40th for number of participants
By population:
For cities between with populations between 250,000 and 500,000, we came in 2nd place for numbers of observations, species and participants, after Mazatlan, Mexico.
Area:
For cities with an area between 1000-2500km2, we came in:
2nd for observations (after Quito, Peru)
1st for species
5th for participants
Region:
In the East Asia/Pacific region, we came in 3rd for all categories after Hong Kong and Klang Valley (Kuala Lumpur).
The global totals were an astonishing 963,773 observations of 31,000+ species, from 35,126 people. Over 7500 people helped make identifications as well. Among the participants, our project was boosted by local user Jon Sullivan, who came in 2nd worldwide for number of observations! We also had at least three kiwis ID'ing species for our local project that made the global top 100 for number of identifications: Lloyd Esler, Mark Tutty and Mark Smale, each of whom contributed to more than 1800 identifications!
Congratulations, everyone! An awesome result for an awesome effort!
Comentários
Exceptionally good job! We here in Texas sure enjoyed seeing the observations coming out of Christchurch too -- thanks so much for sharing! Great job to all! :)
Well done everyone, especially Colin for pulling it all together, Laura for keeping tabs on everything and Jon for his amazing number of obs.
When the dust has settled I'd be interested to know how many, and which, species were found that are new records for Christchurch.
This was a really amazing result, especially for a first-time effort. Thanks Colin, Laura, Jon et al. for all the effort. Christchurch will be in for a second time next year, won't it?
extraordinary results; fabulous to have been part of it and... many thanks to the organising group of dedicated Nature Nerds!
Wouldn't it be great if all New Zealanders become Nature nerds... so that we can reconnect to our Planet and its operations manual.
That would solve quite a few major problems we (humanity) are facing!
Onwards!
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