September is National Biodiversity Month and we’re encouraging the community to head outdoors, explore their local areas, and take part in the Bioblitz 2026: Southern Tassie Showdown.
We’re working with other Tasmanian councils to host the bioblitz, inviting community members to become citizen scientists and help record as many plants and animals as possible, in a particular area, over a set period of time.
How to take part?
- Download iNaturalist App and create an account.
- Join the Biodiversity Month 2026 Southern Tassie Showdown and the Biodiversity Blitz 2026 City of Clarence projects.
- Get outdoors and record plants and animals you see in Clarence between 15 and 30 September.
- Help identify observations made in Clarence during the BioBlitz.
- Check the results when they’re announced on 23 October.
Please note Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE) advice about H5 bird flu.
Once you sign up with an account to iNautralist and start posting your observations of wild things in Clarence, such as plants, insects, animals, and fungi, all posts in Clarence recorded between 15 – 30 September will be counted towards our BioBlitz tally.
Make sure you also join the Biodiversity Blitz 2026 City of Clarence project page, which will give you direct updates about how we’re tracking against neighbouring councils such as Hobart, Glenorchy and Kingborough.
Identifying and verifying observations is also a part of the challenge where all verified observations count towards our final score (so do this too!).
Need inspiration about where to go?
Clarence is home to a diverse range of natural environments, with nearly 40 per cent of our geographical area covered by forest, woodlands, and grasslands.
We have 18 bushland reserves, with many tracks and trails, more than 190 kilometres of coastlines, and the largest saltmarsh in southeast Tasmania.
Head to Facilities, mark up tracks and trails and reserves, and click icons on the map for some ideas of where to go.
Our natural areas provide important habitat to a unique diversity of plants and animals, including many key endemic and rare or threatened species and vegetation communities, and play an important role in the health and liveability of our city.
Protecting this biodiversity is important, and this bioblitz is a great example of how the community can help.
By heading out to your favourite beach, bushland, track or trail, and simply adding you observations to iNaturalist, you will be contributing to valuable biodiversity data in our area.
This data helps us develop bushland management plans to protect all the flora and fauna we love.