Nature in Nillumbik's Journal

As you are likely aware, the Great Southern BioBlitz 2022 starts tomorrow. We hope you make many observations in the bush or backyard wherever you are. Hopefully the damp weather won’t keep you inside and you get outside to snap, record and identify as many species as possible!

We encourage you to join the Nillumbik’s group, so you can track what others are seeing around the shire and help identify

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2022-nillumbik-shire

Also join Christmas Hills landcare groups project - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2022-christmas-hills-landcare

We appreciate all your contributions to citizen science. Through this app, observations of new populations of threatened species such as Eltham Copper Butterfly and Wine-lipped Spider-orchid have been made. Council have also tracked new and emerging weeds, enabling control before they spread.

All contributions help to protect and to improve knowledge of biodiversity in Nillumbik.

If you want any help with using the app or additional assistance in identifications – feel free to reach out @nillumbikshireenvironment or environment@nillumbik.vic.gov.au

If you have ever made an observation in iNaturalist within Nillumbik, you have been tagged here:

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