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Click on the links below to navigate to articles, blogs, radio broadcasts, and even scientific articles about the Ontario BioBlitz program, as well as other BioBlitz activities across Canada. Are we missing a story? Send us an e-mail with the link and we will add it to the list!

Newspaper Articles

2017-01-05 - TVO - "How everyone - even you - can help scientists learn about climate change"
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2016-11-28 - CBC News - "Newly discovered fly species named after MRU administrator"​
2016-09-16 - Dal News - "Gotta log 'em all: Dal hosts its first bioblitz"
2016-08-30 - The Waterloo Record - "More than 30 new species spotted at Rare reserve"
2016-08-25 - CBC News - "BioBlitz finds new species of slime molds, fungi and lichen"
2016-08-14 - The Waterloo Record - "3,300 species​ found at Rare Research Reserve"
2016-07-16 - CBC News - "Grand Lake bioblitz film catches attention of U.N. secretariat"
2016-06-12 - The Mississauga News - "More than 600 volunteers conduct species inventory of Credit River Watershed"

2016-06-11 - The Toronto Star - "Critter-counters hope to find 2,000 species around Credit River for BioBlitz" 
2016-05-29 - Kingston Whig-Standard: " Falling in love with nature at BioBlitz"
2016-04-20 - Niagara this Week - "Niagara College's BioBlitz takes a biodiversity snapshot of NOTL campus"
2016-04-14 -  Erie Media - "Niagara College to host BioBlitz Saturday"
2016-03-09 -  The Mississauga News - "BioBlitz Comes to the Credit"

2015-07-26 - Standard-Freeholder - "Citizen scientists sought for BioBlitz in Alexandria"
2015-07-26 - Seaway News - "BioBlitz coming to Alexandria"
2015-07-20 - Windsor Star - "Bioblitz looks to identify new native species"
2015-07-20 - CBC My Region - "Ojibway BioBlitz draws experts from afar, turns up a robber fly"
2015-07-08 - Manitoulin Expositor - "Misery Bay BioBlitz counts nature"
2015-06-25 - The Globe and Mail - "Scientists scramble to catalogue wildlife ahead of B.C. dam decision"
2015-06-22 - Energetic City - "Bioblitz underway this week in Peace River Valley"
2015-06-02 - Sault Star - "BioBlitz coming to Sault"
2015-05-06 - Manitoulin Expositor - "Participants needed for reptile count at first ever BioBlitz"
2015-03-26 - CBC News - "Ojibway Nature Centre bioblitz turns up 1,119 species"
2015-03-26 - Windsor Star - "Ojibway bioblitz finds 12 new species to Canada, seeks world record in July"

2014-08-18 - CBC News - "Bioblitz turns up invasive snail in Grand ake Meadows"
2014-07-23 - Windsor Star - "Arachnophobes beware - Seven new spiders discovered at Ojibway"
2014-07-16 - Windsor Star - "Ojibway Shores is an ecological treasure"
2014-06-28 - Windsor Star - "Citizen scientists catalogue species for BioBlitz event"
2014-06-04 - Windsor Star - "Ojibway Park BioBlitz is a bird-a-thon on steroids"
2014-06-03 - Goderich Signal Star - "Huron BioBlitz set for June 7"
2014-05-26 - National Post - "Crowd sourcing science"

​2013-09-15 - Toronto Star - "BioBlitz crowd counts all creatures great and small"
2013-01-30 - Scarborough Mirror - "Rare spider among wild species found in Rouge Park area"

Blog Posts

2016-06-07 - BIObus Blog - "Ontario BioBlitz at Riverwood Conservancy and the Credit River Watershed"
2016-04-18 - The Riverwood Conservancy Blog - "Join the 2016 Ontario BioBlitz at Riverwood"
2015-06-19 - Toronto Zoo - Adopt-a-Pond News - "An Eastern Spiny Softshell Sighting at Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto"
2015-06-20 - Conty Live - "Blandings turtle on naturalists' Bio-Blitz list"
2015-06-14 - County Live - "Public welcome to join 24-hour 'BioBlitz' at Pt. Petre"
2015-06-12 - iNaturalist Blog - "Welcome iNaturalist Canada!"
2015-06-11 - The Weather Network - "Bioblitz is 48 hours away and 1700 species will be found"
2015-05-29 - BIObus Blog - "Ontario BioBlitz - Don River Watershed"
2014-08-18 - David Suzuki Foundation Queen of Green Blog - "How to bioblitz"
2014-07-11 - Nature Conservancy of Canada's Land Lines Blog - "The Ontario BioBlitz Program"
2014-07-06 - Wildlife Preservation Canada Blog - "It's, it's a BioBlitz!"
2014-04-22 - Biodiversity Institute of Ontario's BioBus blog - "Ontario BioBlitz May 24-25 in the Humber Watershed"

Royal Ontario Museum Blog
2017-04-19 - "First, Tarantulas in Rouge Park; what's next?"
2016-07-13 - "Yukon BioBlitz: Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun"

2016-06-22 - "BioBlitz at the Edge of Beringia"
2016-06-09 - "Behind the Blitz: Become the Biodiversity"
2016-06-01 - "Behind the Blitz: The Heart of the Data"
2016-05-25 - "Behind the Blitz: Eye to Eye with a Bat"
2016-05-19 - "Behind the Blitz: Three Young Scientists"
2015-10-15 - "BioBlitz Blits - Liking Lichen"
2015-08-14 - "When the BioBlitz Turns into a Treasure Hunt" | (Blog en Francais ici)
2015-08-07 - "BioBlitz Bits - The Bat Pack at Baker's Woods"
2015-08-03 - ""Pseudo-Nature" and Photographic Integrity"
2015-07-24 - "Antonia and Deb's Top 10 Favourite Things About BioBlitzes"
2015-07-03 - "Bug Hunting with Bed Sheets"
2015-06-11 - "BioBlitz Bits - Elusive At-Risk Birds"
2015-06-05 - "BioBlitz Bits - A Tale of Two Bugs"
2015-05-29 - "BioBlitz Blits - Fungi Findings"
2015-05-22 - "BioBlitz Bits - Night of the Newts and Salamanders"
2015-04-13 - "National Volunteer Week - Volunteers Cataloguing Backyard Biodiversity"

2014-06-09 - "Ontario BioBlitz Brings Bad News for Arachnophobes"
2014-06-02 - "2014 Ontario BioBlitz Bird Count Gets Results!"
2014-05-26 - "Snapshots of Biodiversity: A Photo Essay on the 2014 Ontario BioBlitz"
2013-10-07 - "Gone Fish'n at Ontario BioBlitz 2013"
2013-09-19 - "Ontario BioBlitz 2013: Report from the Field"
2012-06-25 - "Life in Toronto - Rouge BioBlitz 2012"
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Radio

2015-07-17 - CBC - Windsor Morning - "Ojibway Prairie BioBlitz"
2015-06-12 - CBC Radio Interview w/ Dave Ireland about the 2015 Don River Watershed Ontario BioBlitz (listen below)
2015-03-24 - CBC Radio's "Afternoon Drive" - "Ojibway Prairie Complex BioBlitz"
2014-06-30 - CBC Radio's "The Bridge" - "Ojibway Park BioBlitz"

Scientific Articles

2015-05-29 - McMullin, Troy, Jose R. Maloles, Steven G. Newmaster. "New and interesting lichens from Ontario, Canada - II" New York Botanical Garden's Opuscula Philolichenum 14: 93-108 

Teaching Aids + Curricula

2015-06-12 - "The Biodiversity of Ontario’s Natural and Manmade Islands: An experimental approach for Ontario secondary science students" - English version (PDF 8.32MB)
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  • Data
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    • BioBlitz Canada >
      • 2017 BioBlitz Canada 150 >
        • Rouge National Urban Park Flagship BioBlitz >
          • Guided Blitz Information
          • Base Camp Festival
          • 2017 BioBlitz Volunteers
        • Trout Bay Intensive Science BioBlitz
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      • May 11-13 Lynde Creek Watershed
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        • 2018 Duffins Creek Watershed Info Packages
    • 2016 Credit River Watershed
    • 2015 Don River Watershed
    • 2014 Humber River Watershed
    • 2013 Rouge Park
    • 2012 Rouge Park
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    • Publications
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