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Traditional Knowledge Helps Understand Nature in Every Sense
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Cultural Anthropologist, Keola Awong, discusses the importance of approaching this week’s BioBlitz in the protected space using every sense, as well as a deep...
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BioBlitz 2015: Where Hawaiian Culture Meets Science
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park — Part scientific endeavor, part outdoor classroom excursion, and part celebration of biodiversity and culture, the 2015 BioBlitz hosted by the National Geographic...
View ArticleBioBlitz Moves to Washington, D.C. in 2016
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. National Park Service, the tenth in a series of annual BioBlitzes hosted by the service and the National Geographic Society will be...
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Jumping Spiders Among 22 New Species Added to Hawai’i Park List
With the numbers still coming in from scientists, the 24-hour BioBlitz in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has so far formally identified more than 400 species. Jumping spiders were among at least 22...
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Encounters With the Birds of Hawai’i Volcanoes
KIPUKAPUAULU–Within an area Hawaiians hold sacred, the realm of the gods thousands of feet above the ocean on Big Island, a spectacular biodiversity hot spot known locally as “Bird Park” is an...
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See Highlights From Hawai‘i Volcanoes BioBlitz, Discover Next Year’s Location
Perhaps squeamish at the idea of counting bugs at first, students soon came to see them as fascinating and entertaining creatures, all part of our one continuous natural world. (Photo by Eric Leifer,...
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Here’s What 40,000 Photos of Wildlife Looks Like
By Carrie Seltzer, National Geographic People all around the world submitted nearly 40,000 observations of plants, animals, and fungi to create a global snapshot of biodiversity last month, as part of...
View ArticleWings, Water, Wind, and Hope in Hawaii
Hawaii has a unique ecosystem. Because the islands were created by volcanoes, all life had to arrive either by water, wind, or wings, says Dean Gallager, a ranger at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park....
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Hear Hawaiian Songbirds Start the Day with a Dawn Chorus
By Amy Werner Each morning those of us who rise after the sun are missing a free daily performance, known as the dawn chorus, sung by early rising avian vocalists in our own backyards. An ‘apapane,...
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Using Science, Exploration, and Storytelling to Change the World in 2015
Every day, the National Geographic Society advances our legacy of studying, exploring, and protecting the planet. And this year proved that there’s still so much left to explore—from discovering a new...
View ArticleBioBlitz 2016 Introduction
A BioBlitz is 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...
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U.S. Parks ‘Blitzed’ in Celebration of Biodiversity Across America
It’s #BioBlitz2016 — are you ready? More than a hundred U.S. national parks and partner sites are hosting a nationwide BioBlitz across America this weekend. Tens of thousands of people are expected to...
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#BioBlitz2016 Takeaway: Restoring Nature Restores Benefits for People
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, a National Geographic Fellow, will be participating in the National Parks BioBlitz in Washington, D.C., this weekend, including accompanying a biodiversity inventory on Theodore...
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Meet the Bee Expert who Helped Invent the BioBlitz
Sam Droege is known for his stunning close-up photography of bees, published in National Geographic (magazine and online), and featured also in the video on this post. He’ll be participating in the...
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#BioBlitz2016 Takeaway: How Geology Shapes Nature in Washington, D.C.
To know how the U.S. national capital area was created geographically — the basic structures formed by millions of years of Earth’s dynamics — is to better understand not only why certain species of...
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Song and Dance Opens National Parks BioBlitz on Washington Mall
“We’re here to honor this beautiful land and the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, and to find out about the Earth that we need to protect together,” National Geographic President and CEO...
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Nationwide BioBlitz Records 6,481 Species in 126 U.S. Parks
Thousands of wildlife spotters fanned out across 126 U.S. national park units Friday and Saturday in a mammoth BioBlitz held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park...
View ArticleEarth Conservation Corps Raptor Is Wildlife Ambassador at National Mall BioBlitz
Ronnell Blakeney is a team leader with Earth Conservation Corps, an organization with a mission “to empower our endangered youth to restore the Anacostia River, their communities and their lives.” The...
View ArticleTen Out of Ten BioBlitzes for Bug Scientist Gary Hevel
Smithsonian entomologist Gary Hevel is the only scientist to have attended every one of the ten annual BioBlitzes organized by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society in the run...
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Learning to See the Forest for the Bees at Olympic National Park
“How many species of bees do you think there are?” I realize at this moment that I can only think of about three, which is clearly the wrong answer. JD Herndon and Houston Guy, entomologists who have...
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