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Bioblitz 2016 Registration

Tarin Rock near Lake Grace has been confirmed as the location for this year’s BioBlitz.

What: Tarin Rock BioBlitz 2016

When: Sat 8 to Sun 9 October 2016 

Where: Tarin Rock Nature Reserve (North and South), near Lake Grace. Headquarters is located on Jipsons Road, Tarin Rock.

Wheatbelt NRM and the Dumbleyung Landcare Zone Inc. will be co-hosting the event and encouraging the local community to help conduct biodiversity surveys to enhance knowledge and understanding of the area’s biodiversity values.

 

The BioBlitz site falls within the Southwest Australia Ecoregion biodiversity hotspot and contains a high number of vegetation associations which help maintain three threatened and 37 priority flora and four threatened fauna species. These include; Malleefowl, Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos, Baudin’s Black Cockatoos, Western Whip Birds, and Red-tailed Phascogales.

 

For more information, contact Wheatbelt NRM’s Regional Landcare Facilitator Leigh Whisson on 9670 3136 or via lwhisson@wheatbeltnrm.org.au.

 

          

Botany (flora), mycology (fungi), ornithology (birds), herpetology (reptiles & amphibians), entomology (insects), ecology (everything), etc. etc.
** If so, please bring all the collecting gear you will require, like jars, field guides, nets and the like**