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Song and Dance Opens National Parks BioBlitz on Washington Mall
“We’re here to honor this beautiful land and the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, and to find out about the Earth that we need to protect together,” National Geographic President and CEO...
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Nationwide BioBlitz Records 6,481 Species in 126 U.S. Parks
Thousands of wildlife spotters fanned out across 126 U.S. national park units Friday and Saturday in a mammoth BioBlitz held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park...
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Earth Conservation Corps Raptor Is Wildlife Ambassador at National Mall BioBlitz
Ronnell Blakeney is a team leader with Earth Conservation Corps, an organization with a mission “to empower our endangered youth to restore the Anacostia River, their communities and their lives.” The...
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Ten Out of Ten BioBlitzes for Bug Scientist Gary Hevel
Smithsonian entomologist Gary Hevel is the only scientist to have attended every one of the ten annual BioBlitzes organized by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society in the run...
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How Wireless Hotspots Made the 2016 BioBlitz Count
Geared with technology, Washington, D.C. area students made their participation at the National Parks BioBlitz count! More than 2,600 students explored national parks in and around the national capital...
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Becoming Naturalists at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center
At the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center in East Freeport, Florida, children are learning about nature by experiencing it firsthand. Developed by Walton County conservationist M.C. Davis in 2009, the Center...
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What is the Value of a Species?
Let’s be honest, these are challenging times to be a conservationist, animal lover, nature fan, outdoorsman…a human. No matter the label, one thing that we all share in common is a desire to feel...
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Citizen scientists give NPS 100,000+ biodiversity records for 100th birthday
Today, the U.S. National Park Service turns 100 years old. The National Park Service has been celebrating all year by organizing over 100 BioBlitzes to document the species living in our national...
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BioBlitz Recognized as Integral to Cutting Edge Action-Oriented Inquiry-Based...
By Amber Strong Makaiau Can humans reverse the negative effects they have had on the environment? This was the compelling question that close to 250 public high school students and their teachers...
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How to Organize a Junior Bug Blitz
By Jonathan Carpenter Photographs by: Kevin FitzPatrick (All Species Photography) and Paul Nolte “In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will only...
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