So #CityNatureChallenge2026 is live! Good to see a number of Asian Cities in Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong making up the top-10 lists so far www.citynaturechallenge.org/live #CNC2026 #CityNatureChallenge2026
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Ten Asian Citizen Science Projects To Keep You Busy in Citizen Science Month - CitizenScience.Asia
As an Asian based non-profit representing Citizen Science in the world's largest continent, CitizenScience.Asia is here to help if you are interested in participating but don’t know what to do. To give you ideas and start you off here is a list of 10 projects you can contribute to across Asia this month.
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Scott C Edmunds@scedmunds.bsky.social · 4mo agoNice to have a piece featured on the @scistarter.bsky.social blog for #CitizenScienceMonth #ActsofScience CitizenScience.Asia: Ten Asian Citizen Science Projects To Keep You Busy in Citizen Science Month pages.scistarter.org/citizenscien...
We love April because it is #CitizenScienceMonth, a global celebration that highlights the public’s role in scientific research. To kick things off, you can find a curated list of great #citizenscience projects around Asia . 🎉 🔬 👨🏻🦲 🐋 🧑🏾🔬 🐝 🧑🏫 🌡️ 🎉 citizenscience.asia/journal/citi...
Ten Asian Citizen Science Projects To Keep You Busy in Citizen Science Month - CitizenScience.Asia
As an Asian based non-profit representing Citizen Science in the world's largest continent, CitizenScience.Asia is here to help if you are interested in participating but don’t know what to do. To giv...
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As #CNC2026 organisers for #HongKong, OWLHK (Outdoor Wildlife Learning Hong Kong) are reaching out to see if any local groups are hosting any outdoor field trip activities during #CityNatureChallenge www.owlhk.org/en/place-bas...
More examples of the long history of #CitizenScience in Asia, with 1400yrs of poetry helping map the historical range of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. “Poems are actually ancient citizen science” mereconomics.com/2025/05/07/p...
“Poems are actually ancient citizen science”
There is very cool and relevant news for this blog from the Smithsonian today. The title quote is from Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China and co-author of a new study. The study …
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LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Celebrating 90,000 Classifications in a College Classroom in China From individual volunteers working on their own devices to students gaining hands-on research experience, the messages we receive often reveal how citizen science fits into very different lives and…
LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Celebrating 90,000 Classifications in a College Classroom in China
From individual volunteers working on their own devices to students gaining hands-on research experience, the messages we receive often reveal how citizen science fits into very different lives and contexts. In this series, we are sharing a few of those stories. You can also read about a student’s work-experience journey in Kenya and a young asteroid hunter from India in our previous posts.
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The Young Zoologists’ Association of Sri Lanka invites submissions for the 6th Citizen Scientists’ Symposium on Conservation and Ecology 2026 www.facebook.com/srilankayza/... #citizenscience #citsci
Amazing finding from the Great Reef Census. Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... #citizenscience
Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’
Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census
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Peace Corps crowdfunding a project on the Coastal Resource #CitizenScience Initiative www.peacecorps.gov/donate/proje...
Coastal Resource Citizen Science Initiative
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Very cool talk in Hong Kong on 31st March: Decoding the Wild: How AI is Translating the Language of Nature www.eventbrite.hk/e/decoding-t...
Decoding the Wild: How AI is Translating the Language of Nature
Biodiversity Beyond Boundaries: Empowering Nature with Tech
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Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) in #HongKong offering Infrared Camera Trap workshops www.kfbg.org/en/events/in...
Thank you to everyone that participated in the Jacana Project Secretariat Bioblitz this weekend. You have helped increase the number of @inaturalist.bsky.social observations in Botataung District of Yangon by about 150% www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
Final day of the Jacana Project bioblitz at the Secretariat in Yangon, and already the students (pictured here) have made more @inaturalist.bsky.social observations in the Secretariat grounds than have ever been seen in all of Botahtaung District www.inaturalist.org/projects/the... #citizenscience
If you are in Yangon this weekend don't miss this Art+Science event at the Secretariat, with an accompanying @inaturalist.bsky.social bioblitz on the student day (possibly the first in Myanmar?). Follow and join the iNaturalist project here www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...
Pint of Science Thailand has a Halloween Edition on Weds 29th October 2025. They've invited 4 speakers to give the talks under the theme ‘Fright at Night’ – to spook us through science! Sign up here to register: forms.microsoft.com/r/PL3X8FD7fR
While the #AsiaNatureChallenge Identification stage is underway we have a webinar tonight: "From Observation to Confirmation: A Thoughtful Approach to Species Identification" on 10th October, 2025 at 7 PM IST. 📌 Register for the session: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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...
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
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
#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...
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
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
🌿 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
The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025 gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-ret... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 #CitizenScience
#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...
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...
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...
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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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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