The City of Cape Town is offering free entry to its nature reserves from 24 November to 27 November for people who are participating in the Great Southern Bioblitz.
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This event takes place annually during springtime in the southern hemisphere and is aimed at recording the vast biodiversity of the local environment.
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Using the same model as the City Nature Challenge, cities in the southern hemisphere compete against each other to see who can record the widest range of plant and animal species during the course of the challenge, which will run from 24 November to 27 November 2023.
Everyone is encouraged to join in by simply signing up and entering their plant and animal sightings on the iNaturalist app or website, and they will automatically be included in the challenge. To see how Cape Town is doing, visit Cape Town’s project page on the iNaturalist website.
‘The Great Southern Bioblitz is a great opportunity for residents to showcase our astonishing natural heritage. Cape Town has its own unique biodiversity with many species being found nowhere else. I encourage residents to join us and participate by visiting the nature reserves in the City that you have never seen before. With reserves such as Wolfgat; Blaauwberg and Witzands Aquifer Nature Reserve I am sure residents will be able to record beautiful and unique sightings, especially at this time of year,’ said Alderman Eddie Andrews, the City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment.
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