Nature in Nillumbik's Journal

Hi there
As you are likely aware, the Great Southern BioBlitz 2023 is running from tomorrow to Monday. As a top contributor to observations through the inaturalist platform, we wanted to encourage you to participate and contribute however you can over the BioBlitz.

Please join the Nillumbik project here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2023-nillumbik-shire-council
Or if in the Christmas Hills area here https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-2023-christmas-hills-landcare

The 'Great Southern BioBlitz', or 'GSB' for short, is an international period of intense biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within several designated areas across the Southern Hemisphere in Spring.

The purpose of this event is to highlight both the immense biodiversity spread across the Southern Hemisphere in the flourishing springtime, as well as to engage the public in science and nature learning using the citizen science platform iNaturalist.

Council encourages the use of the iNaturalist platform, as a way for the community to learn more about the plants, animals, insect and other organisms around them. But also contribute to citizen science, whether its monitoring threatened species or recording the presence of weeds. Your observations contribute valuable scientific data.

Ove the coming weekend, whether you contribute a few records of insects in your backyard or a complete inventory of a reserve. It all contributes and we encourage you to also help try identify the other observations fellow contributors make.

For more on the events in Nillumbik, please look at our webpage or email environment@nillumbik.vic.gov.au

https://www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/Explore/Events-and-festivals/Events-calendar/Great-Southern-Bioblitz-2023

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