יומן של Great Southern Bioblitz 2020 Umbrella

The Great Southern BioBlitz is based on the same format as the worldwide City Nature Challenge (CNC) held earlier in the year. The CNC is held each year in April with over 250 participating cities to observe and record nature in their area. The event organised by Los Angeles Natural history Museum and the Californian Science Academy. In 2020, four Australian cities, Adelaide, Geelong, Redlands and Sydney were involved in the four days BioBlitz with Australians recorded almost 25,000 animal, fungi, and plant observations.
Following the success of the CNC, the Australian cities involved have combined to organise the Great Southern BioBlitz to highlight the biodiversity of our country in the flourishing springtime when flowering plants and many creatures are more evident in rural and city environments.
The GSB organising committee is also eager to have as more many people from the southern hemisphere involved in this event where people participating at each location are striving to find and photograph as many species as possible within the event time frame. The event has proven to be a great way to engage people about nature and to learn about the animals and plant in their area.
The event will be held from Friday 25 September till the end of Monday 28 September with survey areas based on local government boundaries. Each participating group can define its observation range as being one or more local government areas.

Join us we have a look on our project list for an area near you,

We look forward to your area being involved and please free to contact us by email. greatsouthernbioblitz@gmail.com
or find out more on our website is
https://greatsouthernbiobl.wixsite.com/website

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We have This project is for those current Australian iNaturalist contributors planning on taking up the GSB challenge, to push the limits, and to see just how many species and observations they can record in 4 days. Did you participate in the City Nature Challenge 2020? Looking to break your observations or species record?

Here you'll be able to find useful tips and techniques that can help you maximise your contributions.

The 4 Bioblitz days are a great opportunity to take some time to discover the incredible depth and breadth of biodiversity in everything from National Parks to your own backyard.

Do you think you could record 1,000 observations during the challenge? How about 500 species? With a lot of enthusiasm and a little effort, both are quite achievable. These journal posts will centre around achieving those targets but can be equally applied to any personal targets. Set yourself a goal and see just how much you can discover in 4 days, join the challenge project and test yourself against the #BiodiversityChamps.