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Bush Blitz is Australia’s largest nature discovery project - a three-year multimillion dollar partnership to document the plants and animals in hundreds of properties across Australia’s National Reserve System. In this International Year of Biodiversity, Bush Blitz is expected to uncover hundreds of new species and provide the baseline scientific data that will help us protect our biodiversity for generations to come.


Why Blitz?
There are many plants and animals still to be discovered by science. There are an estimated 566,398 species in Australia - but three-quarters of this biodiversity is yet to be identified. Forty-five per cent of continental Australia and over 90 per cent of our marine area have never been comprehensively surveyed by scientists.


Scientists at Work
A full team of scientists will conduct six major biological surveys each year throughout Australia, discovering new species, making new records of species and reporting on these. Surveys will be conducted in the approximately 300 reserves that have been added to the National Reserve System within the past 15 years with Australian Government funding.


Partners
Bush Blitz is a globally unique cross-sector partnership drawing on the knowledge and expertise of government, non-government organisations, industry and science to document the biodiversity of the oldest continent on Earth and provide an international benchmark for biodiversity knowledge.


Click here to visit the Bush Blitz website to find out more!