Alabama Backyard BioBlitz

Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 (All day) to Friday, June 5, 2020 (All day)

Location: Virtual / Your Backyard

Coordinating Agency: Weeks Bay Reserve & Weeks Bay Foundation

Contact Name: Angela Underwood

Contact Email: angela.underwood@dcnr.alabama.gov

Contact Phone: (251) 508-7782

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Weeks Bay Reserve and Weeks Bay Foundation are coordinating an Alabama Backyard BioBlitz using iNaturalist to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th.

We would like our partners to help spread the word and also participate. We are making Facebook posts communicating the value of citizen science and the beauty of Alabama’s biodiversity leading up to the event. Please help share this information through Facebook and other social media outlets as well as email and news blasts. I am attaching a graphic with details for participating, and below is general wording that you are welcome to use - but feel free to create your own posts and tag us. At the end of the BioBlitz, we would like to give credit to our partners that participate and help promote the event. Just send us a logo or website, and we will give your group a shoutout.

"World Environment Day is June 5th, and we invite you to celebrate with us this year by participating in a Backyard BioBlitz. The theme for this year is biodiversity, and what better way to explore nature than in your very own backyard! Alabama ranks 5th in the nation in biodiversity and 1st east of the Mississippi River. In order to protect and conserve our environment, we must first connect with what's out there. Join us June 5th to get outside and discover the nature closest to home, your backyard!"

You can view the project on iNaturalist. Please feel free to reach out to me (Angela) or Clara (clara.zubrick@dcnr.alabama.gov) if you have questions.

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