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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting talk lined up to close the observation phase of #AsiaNatureChallenge with Tony Iwane, Community & Support Coordinator, @inaturalist.bsky.social

📅 October 6th, 2025 (Monday)
🕙 10:00 AM PT | 10:30 PM IST

👉 Enroll here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 4d

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go! medium.com/citizenscien... #ANC2025 #AsiaNatureChallenge

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go!

This weekend is the second installment of the Asia Nature Challenge, so go outside and observe our biodiversity because nature in Asia…

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 4d

Tick Tock! We have only three days to make #AsiaNatureChallenge the biggest bioblitz Asia has seen! Let’s do our part for Asian biodiversity www.inaturalist.org/projects/asi... #ANC2025

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 5d

First morning of #AsiaNatureChallenge and you can track the progress from our @iNaturalist page. Time to get out there and start observing the incredible biodiversity of our continent www.inaturalist.org/projects/asi... #ANC2025

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 7d

#AsiaNatureChallenge is almost upon us, and just to get you started there's a final Overview & Discussion session on 2nd Oct, 6:00 PM IST to help people feel more confident in using @inaturalist.bsky.social and ask final questions #ANC2025.

📌 Join the session: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 9d

For those of you in #HongKong, Sunny is arranging an #AsiaNatureChallenge field guide to Pat Heung on the morning of Oct 1 2025 (which is the National Day holiday). If there is still space (limited to 20 participants) you can sign up with the QR code #ANC2025

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 10d

In the buildup to #AsianNatureChallenge are pleased to bring you another exciting session on “Moth Magic -a Rough Guide to Moth Recording using iNaturalist” on 30th September at 2:00 PM IST.

📌 Register via the QR code, or visit us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ANC2025

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 23d

🌿 Get Started with @inaturalist.bsky.social for #ANC2025! 🌏

We’re hosting a beginner-friendly workshop on 16th Sept, 5 PM IST to help you explore iNaturalist and get ready for the Asia Nature Challenge 2025.

📌 Register via the QR code, or visit us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AsiaNatureChallenge

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GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 26d

The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025
gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-ret... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 #CitizenScience

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · 27d

#AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 is a chance for all of us to notice and record the life we often overlook. Join in this October and be part of a collective effort to understand and protect the living world around us. citizenscience.asia/naturechalle...

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Participate in the #AsiaNatureChallenge 🌿 Be the Eyes for Asia’s Biodiversity

🗓️ Dates to Remember
3–6 Oct: Step outdoors and take photos/sounds of biodiversity around you. Upload these to iNaturalist
7–12 Oct: Help identify and verify what others found!
citizenscience.asia/naturechalle...

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Aug 13

Call for Volunteers for #AsiaNatureChallenge:
Want to help organise a continent-wide citizen science bioblitz happening 3–12 Oct 2025?🌏
Let’s work together to showcase Asia’s incredible biodiversity to the world!
📷 Apply here by 17th August: forms.gle/eyBDkB7984GQ...

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Aug 11

New CitSciAsia meets... video with Dr. Alexey Reshchikov, where he talks about being a #citizenscience advocate and fan. And why he participated in #AsiaNatureChallenge. Stay tuned for more information as we come up to #ANC2025 youtu.be/Q4R29SCBDPg?...

CitSciAsia meets... Dr. Alexey Reshchikov

YouTube video by CitSciAsia

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Jul 19

Nice piece that mentions #AsiaNatureChallenge and the Big Butterfly Count in Nepal.

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal news.mongabay.com/2024/11/scra...

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

KATHMANDU — Nepal is home to a diversity of butterfly species, with 692 identified. More than two dozen species and subspecies have been found to be endemic to Nepal. Despite this, research on butterf...

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Jul 15

Asia Nature Challenge is back!
Asia's biggest #citzenscience celebration of biodiversity is returning in October.
📅 Save the date: October 3-6th

Stay tuned for more information as it comes.
#ANC2025 #AsiaNatureChallenge

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Jun 30

Plenty of time to participate in the #HongKong Caterpillar Photo Contest

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum @hkbm.bsky.social · May 31

【Hong Kong Caterpillar Photo Contest Kids Category🐛】 Do you wonder about the life of butterflies and moths before they get their wings? To your camera then and tell us through your lens!
www.hkbiodiversitymuseum.org/caterpillars 👈

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Jun 12

🌍 Webinar: Integrating #CitizenScience Data into Official Statistics for Air Quality Monitoring
📅 Date: Monday, 16 June 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00–13:30 UTC
📍 Online | Free registration required:
tinyurl.com/47tajavd

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · May 2

From #citizenscience crowdfunded community project to a complete gapless (T2T) genome. Mission Accomplished for Bauhinia Genome bauhiniagenome.hk/2025/04/miss...

Mission Accomplished for Bauhinia Genome - bauhinia genome

It's been a decade long journey but the publication of a completely gapless (T2T) genome assembly finally marks Mission Accomplished for the Bauhinia Genome

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · May 2

Sign up to watch Raghu Saxena (Earthwatch India) present at an Allin Wayra webinar on #citizenscience and Air pollution on 25th May (see QR code)

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · May 1

As identification is underway in #CityNatureChallenge we have a handy webinar on @inaturalist.bsky.social species identification with Debashis Chowdhury, who is ranked 11th in Asia with over 150,000 identifications. youtu.be/38TNmGJ0q_0?...

Asia Nature Challenge 2024: How to Do Identification on iNaturalist

YouTube video by CitSciAsia

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Apr 28

Really incredible to see tiny Macau (biodiverse, but supposedly the most densely populated region in the world) currently leading Asia for observations and species in #CityNatureChallenge www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit... #CNC2025

CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy #CityNatureChallenge weekend. Early days yet but great to see 3 Asian cities it the top 5, including Macau finally pulling out of the shadow of #HongKong!

www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit... #CNC2025 #CitizenScienceMonth

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Apr 13

As of now, there are a little over 130 observations of this orchid species, the Hong Kong Ania (Ania hongkongensis) on iNaturalist.

📷 agnestrekker on iNaturalist
📍 Hong Kong
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A pair of blooming orchid flowers with five long, narrow petals and a yellow center.

Three blooming orchid flowers, each with five long, narrow petals and a yellow center.

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · Apr 15

Here are some of the many (554) species we found on last year's Takahē to Tāone Hīkoi for the #citynaturechallenge in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.

You'd be most welcome to join us if you'd like to be part of the adventure this year.

#nature #nz […]

[Original post on mastodon.nz]

A photo of a passionvine hopper, a pretty moth-like bug native to Australia, sitting on the glasses of a man.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/212840866

A photo of an adult male monarch butterfly, orange and black with white spots, sitting on the stem of a kahikatea tree (a NZ native conifer). We found this an many more monarchs beginning to overwinter in the trees along the side of Thorington School.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/213096294

A photo of a kereru, the native NZ wood pigeon, sitting up in a swamp cypress tree in Hollis Park. Kereru are big iridescent green and white birds with red eyes and orange beaks.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/212844736

A photo of a black colour morph of a tīrairaka, or South Island Fantail. It's a black bird with a long fan shaped tail. We found this along Hereford Street in the centre of Christchurch city.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/213368438

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CitizenScience.Asia @citsciasia.bsky.social · Apr 8

The second part of our CS.Asia Talk Presents... Innovative CitizenScience Tools & Apps webinar is a talk from Fabien Moustard covering the Kapta.Earth #citizenscience platform designed to turn any WhatsApp user into a potential active mapper, and then concludes with a Q&A youtu.be/p5zSX_mb1g0?...

CS.Asia Talk Presents... Innovative CitizenScience Tools & Apps: Pt.2 Kapta & Q&A.

YouTube video by CitSciAsia

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