Great Southern Bioblitz

Next date: Friday, 24 October 2025 | 12:01 AM to Monday, 27 October 2025 | 11:59 PM

The Great Southern Bioblitz is a global citizen science event that encourages the community to get involved in documenting wild flora and fauna to help scientists better understand and protect our environment.

Prepare for the Great Southern Bioblitz

1. Download the iNaturalist app.
2. Get familiar with recording observations and sharing with the iNaturalist community.
3. Participate! Attend our nature discovery activities or make observations on your own.

Get involved

To take part in the Great Southern Bioblitz, simply use iNaturalist to record observations in your backyard, your street, your local park or creek anytime during the four days of the challenge. Better still, download iNaturalist beforehand, and get familiar with using it so that when the Great Southern Bioblitz begins, you are ready to go!

Nature discovery activities

Maroondah City Council will host nature discovery activities during the four days of the Great Southern Bioblitz.

Results from previous challenges

Further information

For more information visit the Great Southern Bioblitz website.

Interested in hearing about future activities?

Register your interest to keep informed for this event and similar citizen science activities that we may run in the future.

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When

Location

Nature discovery activities take place in and around Maroondah throughout the Great Southern Bioblitz.