February 28, 2017

Schools GO for the win!

While there are still a lot of observations to process from the big BioBlitz GO! event, one thing is clear: Wellington schools are awesome! The Sunday public BioBlitz day currently has resulted in 175 observations of 97 species. That result got left in the dust by the Monday schools BioBlitz day, which has so far produced a whopping 741 observations of 155 species!

Well done and a huge thanks to all of the kids and teachers who put in such a great effort.

Posted on February 28, 2017 06:06 AM by jon_sullivan jon_sullivan | 0 comments | Leave a comment

February 26, 2017

Knowledge from the GO!

It's less than three hours left from day one of the Zealandia BioBlitz GO! event. While there's a lot of work still to do to process observations and make sense of it all, it's clear that everyone's efforts are adding a lot to our knowledge of Zealandia nature.

Before today, we knew of 383 species from Zealandia including 193 species observed and photographed by people on NatureWatch NZ. Now we've got 235 species on NatureWatch NZ including 44 species not previously on our Zealandia lists.

That's only going to go up as the rest of today's observations are processed.

In total so far, just today, 42 people have added 357 observations of 190 species. Tomorrow is the school day of the BioBlitz GO! event. Let's see how many more species Wellington kids can find.

Posted on February 26, 2017 08:28 AM by jon_sullivan jon_sullivan | 0 comments | Leave a comment

Progress on the GO!

Lots of great observations have been flooding in from Zealandia and the surrounding halo area from today's BioBlitz Go! event.

Before the BioBlitz started Wellington experts compiled a list of the species known to be in Zealandia. They reached 383 species. Of these, 193 had been found and photographed by people on NatureWatch NZ.

So far today people at the BioBlitz have added 93 species on NatureWatch NZ, including 16 species not on the original lists. That's a great start.

Stay tuned. There's a lot more exploring happening right now.

Posted on February 26, 2017 01:54 AM by jon_sullivan jon_sullivan | 0 comments | Leave a comment

February 24, 2017

Getting ready to GO!

Welcome to the Zealandia BioBlitz Go! project on NatureWatch NZ. Every Zealandia and halo observation you add during the BioBlitz to NatureWatch NZ, through the NatureWatch NZ website or the iNaturalist app, will automatically show up on this page and add to the tally.

Check back regularly from Sunday morning and watch all the amazing finds show up. We'll also be highlighting some of the most incredible creatures and important finds. If you can't make it to Wellington for the big event, you can still follow all the action here and help us to identify the many photos flooding in.

So far we know of 383 species living in Zealandia. Members of the public have so far added photos of 193 of these to NatureWatch NZ. What else can we find? How much higher can we make those counts GO!?

Posted on February 24, 2017 08:44 AM by jon_sullivan jon_sullivan | 0 comments | Leave a comment

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