CNC 2024: African Update

A hearty congratulations to all who have participated in the CNC2024 - from city champions + bioblitz organizers to observers who spent many hours in the field, then sorting through the copious images taken before uploading and the identifiers who spent many hours sharing their knowledge and raising the number of species recorded during the 4-day global event.

The City of Cape Town featured #10 for the number of observations made and #8 for the number of species recorded on the global leaderboard. See here for more global results.

We have much to celebrate as the southern African community as 36 cities, representing 9 African countries participated in the CNC 2024 (compared to 31 cities, representing 6 African countries in CNC 2023). A total of 136, 234 observations were made by 2,980 observers. Thus far 10,093 species have been identified by 1465 identifiers with this number increasing as more identifications are made with time. The number of casual observations has decreased to 9.1% from 12.5% last year implying that participants are focussing on wild species (ie. neither captive nor cultivated).

The most observed species in Africa was Osteospermum moniliferum (Bietou) with 715 observations.

Ranked in number of people participated:

1. South Africa*: 2778
2. Mozambique (Maputo): 28
3. Kenya (Nairobi + Kajiado): 22
4. Namibia (Windhoek + Katima Mulilo): 22
5. Botswana: 12
6. Malawi (Lilongwe): 10
7. Madagascar (Antananarivo): 9
8. Eswatini (Hhohho + Lubombo +Manzini):4
9. Gabon (Bakoumba): 2

Ranked in number of observations made:

1. South Africa*: 118,676
2. Botswana: 1,523
3. Namibia (Windhoek + Katima Mulilo): 1,302
4. Eswatini (Hhohho + Lubombo +Manzini): 776
5. Mozambique (Maputo): 389
6. Madagascar (Antananarivo): 321
7. Malawi (Lilongwe): 302
8. Gabon (Bakoumba): 274
9. Kenya (Nairobi + Kajiado): 153

Ranked in number of species recorded:

1. South Africa*: 9,028
2. Botswana: 571
3. Namibia (Windhoek + Katima Mulilo): 517
4. Eswatini (Hhohho + Lubombo +Manzini): 415
5. Mozambique (Maputo): 207
6. Malawi (Lilongwe): 177
7. Madagascar (Antananarivo): 160
8. Kenya (Nairobi + Kajiado): 110
9. Gabon (Bakoumba): 108

• Since 25 South African cities participated, the results will be featured per province as a separate journal entry.

Posted on 08 de maio de 2024, 03:21 PM by suvarna