{"id":12175,"date":"2026-04-20T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/12175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:36:08","slug":"city-nature-challenge-vancouver-blog-miss604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/12175\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge \u00bb Vancouver Blog Miss604"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t\t\tby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miss604.com\/about\" title=\"Visit Rebecca Bollwitt\u2019s website\" rel=\"author external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Bollwitt<\/a>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/2026\/04\/city-nature-challenge\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" title=\"City Nature Challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Monday, April 20th, 2026 \u2014 2:04pm PDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find wildlife, take a picture, and share to contribute to community science during the City Nature Challenge April 24-27, 2026. All across the Lower Mainland you can have fun in the outdoors while collecting observations which are used for monitoring biodiversity and ecological research.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Heron-in-Stanley-Park-Vancouver-Miss604-Rebecca-Bollwitt-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Heron in Stanley Park Vancouver - Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt photo\" class=\"wp-image-199994\"  \/>Heron in Stanley Park Vancouver \u2013 Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt photo<\/p>\n<p>City Nature Challenge<\/p>\n<p>How it works: <\/p>\n<p>Special Events<\/p>\n<p>Burnaby<\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 24 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm at Deer Lake Park and Saturday, April 25 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at Deer Lake Park. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnaby.ca\/recreation-and-arts\/events\/city-nature-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 from 10:30am to 11:30am\u202f<\/p>\n<p>A guided walk and hands-on bioblitz adventure with the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre. Free! <a href=\"https:\/\/ecologycentre.ca\/city-nature-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, April 26 at 11:00am and 1:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Join the District of North Vancouver\u2019s Urban Forestry and\u00a0Natural Areas team for a guided nature on the Baden Powell trail and Berkley Loop while\u00a0identifying\u00a0and documenting forest plants, fungi,\u00a0and animals. Free! <a href=\"https:\/\/ecologycentre.ca\/city-nature-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 25 from 11:00am to 12:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Join the Fraser River Discovery Centre (FRDC) for a guided nature walk around Tynehead Regional Park in Surrey. <a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/220806574342050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 25 from 11:00am to 3:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Join Stanley Park Ecology for a BioBlitz at Beaver Lake. Free! <a href=\"https:\/\/stanleyparkecology.ca\/event\/city-nature-challenge-bioblitz-at-beaver-lake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Register online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arrive prepared with weather appropriate clothing, comfortable walking shoes, and have the iNaturalist ready on your mobile with your account setup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fbfeff\">Find <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/vancouver-events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more local events here \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tmetadata<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCategories:<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/category\/bc\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/category\/vancouver\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vancouver<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTags:<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/vancouver-events\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/parks\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parks<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Rebecca Bollwitt Monday, April 20th, 2026 \u2014 2:04pm PDT Find wildlife, take a picture, and share to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[238,17,3880,414,226,3879,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-12175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-bc","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-contest","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-theatre","14":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}