Border BioBlitz is back! Here’s how you can help document biodiversity in the borderlands

Border BioBlitz is back! Here’s how you can help document biodiversity in the borderlands

Along a border better known for razor wire, patrol trucks and hundreds of miles of steel fencing, volunteers this spring are fanning out with smartphones to count wildflowers, lizards and birds. Border BioBlitz 2026 — El BioBlitz de la Frontera in Spanish — is a binational “community science” species survey in April and May taking place in various canyons and desert regions adjacent to the 3,145-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S.-Mexico Bord…