- Thursday 30 Apr 2026, 3pm to 6pm
- Thursday 7 May 2026, 3pm to 6pm
30 April 2026
City Nature Challenge | Ask a UC expert, identify your finds
Need some help uploading and ID-ing your photos and observations for the City Nature Challenge 2026? Drop into one of our ask-an-expert sessions on UC campus.
Do you need a little bit of extra help uploading your observations into the iNaturalist app? Want to take a closer look at what you and other citizen scientists have collected?
Drop into Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens, where experts will be on hand to answer any questions at set times. Microscopes will be set up to support looking at some of the tiny things collected and other tools will be available to help you get a good photo.
Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens(external link) can be accessed by walking upstream on the path beside the stream - pick it up from Engineering Road.
If you are keen to get together with other like-minded iNaturalists and put your own identification skills to the test, feel free to join us!
City Nature Challenge is an annual bioblitz-style competition with cities around the world in a friendly contest to see who can make the most observations of nature.
You have until Monday May 10 to upload your photos into iNaturalist to make your observations count in the challenge final totals.
Join the City Nature Challenge project page(external link)(external link) for updates and to track how we are doing.
Do you need a little bit of extra help uploading your observations into the iNaturalist app? Want to take a closer look at what you and other citizen scientists have collected?
Drop into Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens, where experts will be on hand to answer any questions at set times. Microscopes will be set up to support looking at some of the tiny things collected and other tools will be available to help you get a good photo.
Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens(external link) can be accessed by walking upstream on the path beside the stream - pick it up from Engineering Road.
If you are keen to get together with other like-minded iNaturalists and put your own identification skills to the test, feel free to join us!
City Nature Challenge is an annual bioblitz-style competition with cities around the world in a friendly contest to see who can make the most observations of nature.
You have until Monday May 10 to upload your photos into iNaturalist to make your observations count in the challenge final totals.
Join the City Nature Challenge project page(external link)(external link) for updates and to track how we are doing.
Location
Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens, Engineering Road, Ilam
Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu Community Gardens, Engineering Road, Ilam
Event contact
Seamus Moran seamus.moran@canterbury.ac.nz www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-events www.facebook.com/universitycanterburyOther events you may be interested in
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