Parks For Pollinators 2023
www.inaturalist.org
The Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz is a national campaign to raise awareness and community involvement in the pollinator crisis through local parks and recreation. The National Recreation and Park Association and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation are challenging local parks to get involved and host a pollinator BioBlitz during September. Check below to see if your community is taking part, track what is being found and see who is in the lead! And to learn more about our work, please visit www.nrpa.org/BioBlitz Pollinators are a vital component of our ecosystem, and an essential link to the world’s food supply. According to the White House’s Pollinators Health Task Force, over the last 30 years, the United States has seen a steady decline of pollinators (such as bees, bats and butterflies) at an alarming rate of 30 percent annually — making it vital to take action on pollinator protection. Participating in a BioBlitz can help you identify what pollinators share your local habitat and...

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/2859577

Edit: Added the city of Plantation.

BioBlitz events will be held in the following places in Broward County this September: (links are to their iNaturalist project pages)

Note: BioBlitz events last the whole month so you can still participate anytime even if you can’t go on these specific days!

If you’re not sure what this is all about…

A “BioBlitz” is an event where you go around and make observations of wildlife all around you using the citizen science app/website iNaturalist. Every September, the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) runs the “Parks for Pollinators” BioBlitz, which consists of a bunch of such events across the US, lasting the whole month, and focusing mainly on plants and the animals that pollinate them (mainly insects and birds) in local parks. But, with an iNaturalist account, you can record observations of any sort of living thing you want, anywhere, as much as you want, anytime. The umbrella project page on iNaturalist for NRPA’s BioBlitz events is linked at the top.

The BioBlitz events happening in Broward specifically are the ones I listed at the top. (Markham Park is located within Sunrise, so any observations you make there count for both projects.)

They all last the whole month, but some of them have special events on specific days. But you can go to these places anytime in September to participate. (Or just make observations on iNat anytime, anywhere, even if they’re not part of a project.)

If you want to participate, you’ll need an iNaturalist account, and any relevant observations you make in participating locations will automatically be counted in applicable projects. If you join the project, its badge will also appear on your observations that are part of the project! Feel free to post questions about how to join/use iNaturalist.