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 in Metchosin and adjacent jurisdictions.
- Use this information and awareness to protect and restore 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 2022 we had catalogued over 3412 species, from almost 20,000 observations made 480 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 2023 collection project. Curators will review these and move most of them into our iNaturalist database (Metchosin Biodiversity Project). (The Metchosin bioblitz data includes some offshore waters and islands and the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve.)
The Metchosin Talk and Walk series has started up again, post-COVID. You can read about our previous events on the Talk and Walk pages.
The Metchosin Biodiversity Project acknowledges the regular support of the Metchosin Foundation.