BATON ROUGE– Grab your phone and your friends and explore the outdoors during the 10th annual City Nature Challenge, April 25-28, 2025. The Baton Rouge region is competing in the global contest to collect photos of wild plants and animals in the iNaturalist app and iNaturalist.org website.
Discover our incredible wildlife hiding in plain sight! The Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge need your help to document nature in the following parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Lafayette, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
Taking part is easy!
The more participants, observations, and species we find, the better the Baton Rouge Region will compete against 800+ other cities around the world. The event is 24 hours a day for 4 days, so charge your flashlight and look for nocturnal critters too!
The Baton Rouge Region City Nature Challenge is a community effort spearheaded by the Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge. The global organizers of the City Nature Challenge are the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Resources:
Local challenge information: www.brnaturechallenge.org
Global challenge information: citynaturechallenge.org
Local iNaturalist project (watch our progress live!):
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-baton-rouge
Global iNaturalist project (Watch each time zone as they begin, starting in Australia and ending in Hawaii): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025
