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Great Southern Bioblitz
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Biodiversity awareness through citizen science
October 24th-27th 2025 on iNaturalist
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Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Culebrilla ciega / Epictia subcrotilla
🏞️: Huaquillas - El Oro
📷: Santiago Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #GIBS #Reptiles #CienciaCiudadana #Biodiversidad #SomosInaturalistEc
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🕷️ Final days to help ID spiders from the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025!
Every ID helps biodiversity data become more useful for science. 🌍✨

👉 Identify Arachnids www.inaturalist.org/projects/gre...

💬 Add comments, 💖 FAVE your finds & tag #GSB2025

📸 Misumenops callinurus – @giulianna_1
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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🖌Calling all artists, we're extending our #VicBioCon26 Logo Comp! We're also switching up the prize, the winner will now be awarded $500! Enter the competition by emailing your designs to vicbiocon@gmail.com before 11:59pm on Friday 13th February 2026!🎨
T&Cs here: www.vicbiocon.com/post/enter-t...
Infographic with a cartoon person painting on an easel. The easel is covered in green and pink paint splatters with information on the competition. Heading: "VicBioCon Logo Competition" Body text: "Enter for the chance to make the next official VicBioCon logo and win $500! Email entries to vicbiocon@gmail.com before 11:59pm Friday 13th February 2026."
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Probably the best highlight of my #GSB2025.

A very busy #Echidna spotted in #Victoria

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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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🌏 #GSB2025 update!
📸 230,067 observations
🌿 25,914 species
🔎 3,694 identifiers
👥 9,480 observers

The ID phase is on! Help turn those “Unknowns” into valuable biodiversity data.
👉 www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/post/editing...
#GreatSouthernBioBlitz #iNaturalist #CitizenScience
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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What a highlight!
Check out this guy Francesco spotted during the #gsb2025
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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🌏 Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 – Observation Phase Complete!
📸 202,906 Observations
🌿 24,236 Species
🔍 3,249 Identifiers
👥 9,170 Observers

The observation phase has ended- now it’s time to upload & identify!
#gsb2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌏 #GSB2025 Day 4 update!
183,690 observations | 23,028 species | 3,044 identifiers | 8,874 observers

The observation phase is ending & the ID phase begins! 🔍
Help make every record count for conservation follow updates 💚
👉 www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-...
We’re wrapping up an incredible weekend of biodiversity disc
We’re wrapping up an incredible weekend of biodiversity discovery across the Southern Hemisphere! 📊 Current Totals: 🔹 183,690 observations 🔹 23,028 species 🔹 3,044 identifiers 🔹 8,874 observ
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October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Silver-crowned Friarbird 'Philemon argenticeps' #BirdsSeenIn2025 on a very productive Day 3 of the #GSB2025 Darwin, Australia
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🌏✨ Great Southern BioBlitz 2025, Day 4

We’ve reached the final day and participation across the Southern Hemisphere continues to soar!
People everywhere are documenting nature in full force. 🌿📸

Overview
152,058 Obs
20,723 Spp
2,645 Id'rs
8,076 iNaters
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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🌏✨ #GSB2025 Day 3 Update!

📊 115,851 observations
🌿 17,700 species
🔍 2,187 identifiers
👣 6,768 observers

Incredible effort from across the Southern Hemisphere — and there’s still time to explore, upload & ID on iNaturalist! 💚

#GreatSouthernBioBlitz #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#GSB2025 Highlight: A stunning record of the Southern Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa ssp. famosa)

These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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🌼 Record highlight from Cork Oaks Track, Mount Beckworth, VIC 🇦🇺
Golden Cowslips (Diuris behrii) spotted by @david_boulton 💛

A delicate yellow orchid of southern Australia’s grasslands, flowering from Sept–Nov.

#GSB2025 #GreatSouthernBioBlitz #Orchids #Biodiversity
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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There are many adventures being has in #colombia during the #GSB2025 it's hard to keep up
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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💚 Registro destacado desde Santa Catalina, Envigado, Antioquia 🇨🇴
Gorgojo verde rayado (Compsus viridivittatus) observado por @juanes0812 🪲

Un escarabajo metálico y brillante, nativo de los bosques de Colombia — ¡una muestra de la increíble biodiversidad que revela el #GSB2025! 🌿
#Biodiversidad
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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As day 2 of the #GSB2025 wraps up across the Pacific — and our numbers keep climbing!

📊
56,193 obs
11,685 spp
1,451 identifiers
4,331 observers

Top species:
Aust. Magpie
Honey Bee
Rough Rock Crab
Bluefin Leatherjacket

#CitizenScience #iNaturalist www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-...
Our numbers continue to climb, biodiversity is being discove
Our numbers continue to climb, biodiversity is being discovered, photographed, and shared across the Southern Hemisphere at an incredible pace! 🌿📸 And we’re only halfway through the weekend — with
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October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The wildflower season in the Perth Hills hadn’t finished yet, still lots to see! Seen today:

🌱 Winged Stackhousia
🌿 One-sided Bottlebrush
🍃 Stylidium recurvum triggerplant
🍂 Featherflowers

For those in the Southern hemisphere, record what you see on #inaturalist for #GSB2025
#ozflora #wildoz
Tripterococcus brunonis - Winged Stackhousia - a stem with yellow tubular flowers that are star shaped in appearance Melaleuca quadrifida - One-sided Bottlebrush - shrub with feathery red flowers Stylidium recurvum - a triggerplant that grows in a rounded mound and has lots of small peachy, pink flowers all over it Verticordia acerosa - a shrub with bright yellow, fading to orange, flowers that have a feathered appearance
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The first record of #GSB2025 is in!
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
Pūriri moth (Aenetus virescens)
Pūriri moth from Mangawhai, New Zealand on October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM by Joseph Knight
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Kangaroo Island locals and visitors are invited to join the Kangaroo Island Great Southern BioBlitz to document KI's unique biodiversity from 24th to 27th October.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/gre...

potential hashtags:
#kangarooisland
#kangarooislandwildlife
#GSB2025
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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🌿 Five on Friday — It’s BioBlitz Time! 🌏
#GSB2025 starts today! 🎉

Kick off with our Five on Friday challenge — make 5 iNaturalist observations today to boost your region! 📸

Every photo counts — tag your finds with #GSB2025 🌼🦋🐦
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org

#BioBlitz #CitizenScience #Nature
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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And we’re off! The #GreatSouthernBioBlitz 2025 has begun!
Already 🌿 559 observations, 🐞 361 species, and 💡 66 identifiers from 123 participants!

Join in — head outside, snap what you see, and upload to iNaturalist 💚
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🌙🦋 Moth Night is here!
Join #GSB2025 (24–27 Oct) & explore the hidden world of moths after dark.

💡 Set up a light + sheet
📸 Snap photos
📲 Upload to iNaturalist

Every moth counts — discover, share & celebrate biodiversity!
👉 buff.ly/eEFcxoV
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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flograttarola.bsky.social
Next is my turn to present our #RegRed project at #LivingData2025. If you are interested in regional, national l, and subnational red list data get in touch! 🚨🐆🌴🐠🪲 Also, make sure to check @ulicny.bsky.social’s poster too!
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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green-jewel.bsky.social
GRAN BIOBLITZ DEL SUR
Loja Biodiversa 2025

Si vives en la provincia de Loja, puedes ser parte de este evento de ciencia ciudadana, la maratón fotográfica de biodiversidad del hemisferio sur.

Participa del 24 al 27 de octubre y ayúdanos a descubrir la biodiversidad del sur del Ecuador.
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM