METU Ecosystem Application and Research Center (EKOSAM) is organizing the 2nd Count Species! activity on METU campus on Sunday, May 26, 2019, from 08:00 am to 8.00 pm in cooperation with the Nature Conservation Center.
Photographs of plants, birds and butterflies will be shared first with experts and then with everyone. The event is committed to identifying many species as part of community science, as well as having a pleasant time in nature.
To participate in this event to be held with limited number of people and to get to know the nature in METU; you can submit your application using the link http://odtudedoga.org until May 20, 2019.
About Counting Species
Counting species activity, also known as bioblitz (combination of the words “bio” meaning life and “blitz” meaning raid indicates that people discover the diversity of species in a certain place in a short time by intensively cooperating), has been around in many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, as a community science activity in order to increase public interest in nature. In this activity open to all the participants from all backgrounds, the living creatures observed in nature are identified by the help of experts.
In the Count Species! activity held for the first time in 2018 in METU, 100 participants, accompanied by nature guides recorded 1324 observations. 1054 of them were diagnosed. The five most recorded species include Balkan marbled white (butterfly), Linum hirsutum, Issoria lathonia (butterfly), and Veronica prostrata (plant).
