The Blue World Institute launched the first Croatian Bioblitz on the Adriatic today as part of activities within the project “LIFE Delfi – Reducing the interaction with fisheries”.
The bioblitz is taking place from 22 to 28 May, during the first Adriatic Biodiversity Conservation Week.
Bioblitz is a civic science activity that invites volunteers and nature lovers and all other members of the community who wish to join, to participate in the collection of information on biodiversity in a certain period of time in a certain area.
During the first Croatian Bioblitz, observations of marine mammals in the Adriatic will be collected, in order to try to determine the areas of their occurrence and habitat, the number or occurrence of new or rare species.
The Blue World Institute will implement the first Adriatic Bioblitz through a new mobile application “Marine Ranger” which it developed within the LIFE Delfi project co-financed by the LIFE program of the European Union and the Office for Non-Governmental Organisations of the Government.