Niagara residents are invited to take part in a Bioblitz next week.
The activity is supported around the world and includes organizations like the Canadian Wildlife Federation and National Geographic.
The Niagara event takes places at the Balls Falls Conservation Area on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. and is hosted by Balls Falls Conservation Area and the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.
National Geographic describes a BioBlitz as, "An event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to get a snapshot of an area’s biodiversity. These events can happen in most any geography—urban, rural, or suburban—in areas as small as a backyard or as large as a country. Smartphone technologies and apps such as iNaturalist make collecting photographs and biological information about living things easy as part of a BioBlitz. High quality data uploaded to iNaturalist become part of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, an open source database used by scientists and policy makers around the world."
Balls Falls Conservation Area is located at 3292 Sixth Avenue in Lincoln.
