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What can we do? How to drum up support for our area or society!

Question!

I have been wondering how we could drum-up support for the City Nature Challenge along the River, we have tried walks in the past, but it seems to me the challenge is essentially a solo-activity, and attendance on the walks has been nothing to write home about.
This year we thought perhaps we might be able to support through a kind of sub-project, "the most observations along the Liesbeek"? Or something like that? I have had a look but I cannot see whether/how this is possible?

Answer:

An excellent idea.

It is easy to do:
You have a project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/liesbeek-biodiversity

So you could easily assess data with some filters: e.g.
Observers in City Nature Challenge 2019
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2019-04-13&d2=2019-04-30&place_id=any&project_id=liesbeek-biodiversity&verifiable=any&view=observers
just change the dates to see the 2022 CNC: e.g. (but no data yet - it wont go until we get going!!)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-04-29&d2=2019-05-02&place_id=any&project_id=liesbeek-biodiversity&verifiable=any&view=observers

(note you can also do most species seen, by clicking on the species heading option)

Not only can you thus look at people’s contributions, but you can also get buy-in by asking people to vote for the best observation, by adding faves.
And then you could easily look at the most-faved observations.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2019-04-13&d2=2019-04-30&order_by=votes&page=&place_id=any&project_id=liesbeek-biodiversity&verifiable=any

And for all of these you can offer subcategories: e.g.

And of course, why go it alone? Challenge other wetlands to better the Liesbeek, eg.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wetlands-of-cape-town

For instance challenge Disa River and Elsieskraal River and Diep River to better you in a challenge (e.g. for 2019), and the winner has to invite the other groups for a tour of their river and a hack of aliens or clean-up.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2019-04-13&d2=2019-04-30&project_id=disa-river&verifiable=any&place_id=any
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2019-04-13&d2=2019-04-30&project_id=biodiversity-of-the-elsieskraal-river&verifiable=any&place_id=any
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2019-04-13&d2=2019-04-30&place_id=any&project_id=rietvlei-nature-reserve-2b3e8e64-57f0-47e8-a8bf-e1a764394633&subview=map&verifiable=any
If there is enough interest (more than 5 groups), why not create a special CNC Challenge Project?

I hope that this helps answer your question a little.
So yes: please organize and event, but just as importantly, encourage people to visit the area on their own.

And if you have any more questions, please ask below

Julkaistu huhtikuu 7, 2022 03:31 IP. käyttäjältä

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Copy/Paste Biolerplate Feedback

During the Challenge there is no time to type responses. Please bookmark this page if you want to quickly copy paste some standard responses for these common errors:

Multiple Species in One Observation

Please note that iNaturalist can only cope with a single species per observation. This observation will please need to be split into several observations: one per species. Note you can have several photos, but they must be the same species at the same place at the same time.
It is easy on the web: On the top right at "EditV" click "V" and choose "Duplicate." Then identify the organism you want and untick the checkboxes next to the other photos. Click Save. Then come back here, click "Edit," and untick the photos saved in the duplicate, and Save. Repeat until all are saved.
On the smartphone, it is a little more involved. All of the photos should have been automatically saved in the photo gallery. Please use the app to create a new observation for each species uploading the photo(s): check the date, location and location error. When done, please either edit this observation to remove the extra photos, or delete it if you have posted them all.
More tips here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-fix-your-observation-with-photos-of-multiple-species/15096
Remember when taking pictures with the app, use the + or add icon to upload more pictures for the same organism, but SAVE between organisms.

Multiple Observations for a Single Species

Is this a duplicate observation of the previous observation for this species? Please note that observations of the same organism at the same time and place should be on the same observation. Please delete this observation after moving the picture to the original observation.
On the iNaturalist App, please use the "+" or camera icon to upload more photos onto an observation. Save only when all your photos of that organism are taken. If you are using the website upload wizard, you can drag cards on top of another to combine them.
If you accidentally uploaded images as separate observations, please combined them into one, and delete these duplicates. Here is a tutorial that shows how: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-turn-multiple-observations-into-a-single-observation/9838

Captive/Cultivated observations

This appears to be a captive or cultivated organism. I have marked it as such. Please confirm.
Please mark definite captive animals and planted plants as "captive/cultivated", when you upload their observations. You can also do this in Data Quality Assessment section below by clicking "thumbs down" alongside "Organism is wild?".
If you disagree with my assessment, please click the "thumbs up" alongside "Organism is wild?" in the DQA, and tell us why.

Missing pictures

Missing pictures. Please sync your app so that your pictures upload. This happens if the signal is not strong enough or if there is a power outage. On your home page ("me") press the sync button, or swipe down to sync. Make sure that all your observations have uploaded. Dont forget to pop back occasionally to see if you have any messages.

There is not usually time to do more than these during the Challenge or Bioblitz, but look out for these below. Only put it on the first one you notice per observer:
(note observations with missing dates or localities wont show up in the Project Pages: so we probably wont discover these until after the events, when we have lots of time to check IDs) - so they are not included here!

Imprecise Location

This observation has a very large radius of uncertainty around the location which makes the data less useful. Are you able to edit the observation to make the location more precise? We prefer localities accurate to 5-10m, although that is often not possible. Thank you!
If you used the app, please give the first observation a little more time to "find" you - taking two pictures is usually long enough. If you are using the app without GPS, or web upload wizard, please zoom in as far as you can when choosing your locality, and check your "circle of uncertainty". It must be as small as possible without exaggerating your precision: you are saying that you were definitely inside the circle, and definitely not outside it.

Missing Location Resolution

This observation is missing a "Location Accuracy". The location accuracy (or more correctly, the error around the marked locality) is crucial for using the data for research, conservation, planning and follow-up. Please always make sure that it is present. Please fix this observation. More information can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/26289-proforma-cribsheet#activity_comment_a691e738-06e5-4a10-a1b4-e588af02e448

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