Welcome to the web site of the Metchosin BioBlitz and MycoBlitz. The team at the Metchosin Biodiversity Project sponsors the blitzes and publishes the results on these pages in order to:
- Increase our understanding of Metchosin’s species and ecosystems.
- Share natural history information with interested people.
- Use this information to protect Metchosin’s species and ecosystems.
We started our work in 2011 with BioBlitzes and (a bit later) MycoBlitzes. Our most up-to-date inventories of Metchosin species are available in the Metchosin Biodiversity project of iNaturalist. By the end of 2023 we had catalogued almost 3600 species, from almost 23,000 observations made 700 people. See the posts below for the latest totals. We encourage everyone interested in helping us to log their photographed Metchosin observations in iNaturalist. All of these observations will be automatically logged by our 2024 collection project. Curators will review these and move most of them into our iNaturalist database (Metchosin Biodiversity Project).
For more about the Metchosin Talk and Walk series, see the Talk and Walk pages.
The Metchosin Biodiversity Project acknowledges the regular support of the Metchosin Foundation. The project is a member of IMERSS.