Don Reserve Extinction Matters BioBlitz

Threatened Species Day marks the date - 7th September 1936 - of the death of the last known thylacine. Eighty years on in 2016, the theme for the day was 'Extinction Matters', marked by two Tasmanian BioBlitzes in Hobart and Latrobe.

This year - 2019 - the Extinction Matters BioBlitz (extinctionmatters.com.au) will take place on 8-9 November at Don Reserve, Devonport.

A partnership between the Bookend Trust and the local councils - this year, Devonport - is running this initiative, with support from numerous additional organisations and individuals.

A BioBlitz is a festival of science in nature - an effort by the community, working with scientists and naturalists, to discover and record as many living things as possible within each site for a set period (30 hours in this case).

You can visit stalls with information on plant and animal species from the site, and participate in surveys throughout the 30 hour period, to help find as many species as we can. Join experts for a dawn bird survey; see what you can spot during surveys for species such as orchids, mosses, beetles through the day; help set camera traps to be checked the following morning, and choose various bat, owl and moth activities through the night.

Surveys on Friday morning are for schools students and not available through EventBrite, but from the mid afternoon all activities will be available for everyone, young and old, running into interpretive night walks and bat surveys and plenty more through to the following afternoon. These can be booked through EventBrite. If you experience difficulties booking on EventBrite, Devonport City Council can help - call 6424 0511.

The BioBlitz is primarily focussed on Council land; please don't enter or record species on private property without permission to do so! less ↑