Join the Great Southern BioBlitz 2020

The Great Southern BioBlitz is based on the same format as the worldwide City Nature Challenge (CNC) held earlier in the year and covered by this project. In the CNC, 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 eager to have as more many cities, towns and rural shires 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 will be held from Friday 25 September till the end of Monday 28 September with survey areas based around local government boundaries.

For our area covered by City Nature Challenge, four local projects have been created.
Geelong: (COGG plus part of Golden Plain and Moorabool shires)
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-geelong
Surf Coast:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-surf-coast
Ballarat Region: (City of Ballarat and adjacent Northern Golden Plains, West Moorabool, Hepburn, and Pyrenees shire areas)

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-ballarat-region
Colac Otways:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-colac-and-otway

We are currently in discussion with the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria on the allocation of council areas so as to have a few Melbourne City areas that also include adjacent peri -urban and some rural areas.

The overarching Project for the Great Southern BioBlitz showing all competitor totals including those locations in New Zealand, South Ameria and Africa is
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-umbrella

A Victorian project providing a snap shot of Melbourne and Regional Victoria is: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2020-victoria

We look forward to you joining your local area project and let’s make this springtime BioBlitz a successful and fun filled event as was the CNC.

https://greatsouthernbiobl.wixsite.com/website
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Posted on 21 de julho de 2020, 03:27 AM by rover-rod