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BioBlitz success

17^th June 2010

163 species found and identified in 24 hours

Last weekend at Durrell, the first ever Bioblitz took place as part of the BBC Springwatch season and to help celebrate 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Members of the public worked alongside local experts to find and identify as many different native species of plants and animals as possible within 24 hours.

There were a variety of hands-on activities for people to take part in from a late-night bat walk, an early morning bird walk, pond dipping, butterfly walks, moth and small mammal trapping, pit fall traps to look for invertebrates and tree and wild flower walks around the grounds.

The whole event was lots of fun for everyone who took part and the grand total at 6pm on Saturday was 163 species, which included glow worms, red squirrels, toads, Jersey bank voles and many more.

Well done to everyone who came along during the 24 hours to help out including Sam and Toby, Cal and Xander, Anne, Penny, Craig and Amy, Ricki and Jhonny and St Mary’s Rainbows. And a big thank you to all our experts who gave up their time to help us: the Jersey Bat group, the Hedgehog group, members of the Environment Department, Spencer Collins, Olivia Copsey, Nina Cornish, Amy Hall, Jill Key, Roger and Margaret Long, Monique Le Monnier, Dom Wormell and Glyn Young.

Next year we hope to make the Bioblitz even bigger and better, more experts, more activities, more fun and even more species - See you then!

Click here to read the previous BioBlitz article.

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