The 2026 City Nature Challenge is a fun global community science event taking place April 24–27 that gets people outdoors to photograph local wildlife and contribute to a worldwide effort to better understand biodiversity.

By participating you will get to learn about plants, animals and fungi in your area while helping support conservation, planning, and environmental decision-making in the Houston-Galveston area.

If you attend one or more of the many City Nature Challenge events offered by local environmental organizations, you might just make some new friends as well while enjoying our area at a beautiful time of year.

Click here to find out more about the City Nature Challenge, which was started as a small competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has since grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), the CNC is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities collaborate to see what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal.