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8 June 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT
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FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
It’s World Oceans Day and we’re here to celebrate by inviting everyone to explore the beaches of “Stanley Park” to survey our resident marine organisms! Join Stanley Park Ecology, the Vancouver Aquarium, OceanWise, and Water Rangers on the sand to get up-close and personal with the crabs, mussels, seaweeds, sea stars, and everyone else who calls the beach home at low tide.
We will upload our observations to the app iNaturalist, a great community science resource where participants can get feedback from other app users and the app algorithm about the identity of the species that get added to the BioBlitz project. We recommend you download the app ahead of time, as you can get support if needed during the event about how to navigate iNaturalist. Check out the project page on iNaturalist that we will be contributing to! Stanley Park Beach Bioblitz 2025 · iNaturalist
This event is part of our World Oceans Day event, find out more and register for the Shoreline Clean-Up also happening on this date, hosted by OceanWise: https://app.ocean.org/app/cleanup/details/a0zN3000005Poy1IAC
PROGRAM DETAILS
This event will run from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. This is a free event! Please register through this event page so you can receive updates and reminders about the program. Participants can check in for some brief instructions at the Stanley Park Ecology table along the seawall whenever you arrive for the BioBlitz. See location below.
Location: This event will take place along the Stanley Park Seawall near The Fox’s Den Spray Park. See map location for exact details: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yzU4AVhBGrwgFyFbA
Accessibility notes: Accessing the beach requires going down a paved ramp from the seawall that can be a bit steep and slippery if wet, with driftwood at the base of the ramp (unfortunately not suitable for mobility aids like scooters and wheelchairs). The sandy intertidal area exposed at low tide can have slippery rocks in some areas. If you have any questions about accessibility, please email Julia at publiced@stanleyparkecology.ca
The land and shores on which we gather is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səlilwətaɬ) Peoples. Their stewardship and respect for this land has carried forward for thousands of years long before settlers named it “Stanley Park.”