{"id":69810,"date":"2026-03-26T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=69810"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:17:55","slug":"watch-sheffield-city-nature-challenge-launched-to-promote-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/watch-sheffield-city-nature-challenge-launched-to-promote-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Sheffield City Nature Challenge launched to promote biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildsheffield.com\/\">Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust<\/a> has launched a city-wide competition to record biodiversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield City Nature Count 2026 aims to encourage residents from across Sheffield to explore the city\u2019s green spaces and get out into nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildsheffield.com\/wildlife\/wildlife-conservation\/more-data-for-nature\/sightings\/sheffield-city-nature-challenge\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wildsheffield.com\/wildlife\/wildlife-conservation\/more-data-for-nature\/sightings\/sheffield-city-nature-challenge\/\">competition<\/a> will run between April 24 and 26, with this year marking the first time that Sheffield has taken part. It involves over 700 cities globally to see how many species citizens can spot over the four recorded days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants are encouraged to record their sightings on the Trust\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/record.wildsheffield.com\/\">Nature Counts<\/a>\u2019 system during the challenge and help to push Sheffield up the live, worldwide leaderboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entries are then verified by a team of experts to remove any concern about mis-identification of a species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield City Nature Challenge\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRbONL75Jos?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elesha Searles, Community Nature Advisor at Sheffield &amp; Rotherham Wildlife Trust, speaks about the challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust has launched needs help to record the city&#8217;s biodiversity this April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":69877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[38,131],"class_list":["post-69810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sheffield","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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