(PAU VILLANUEVA/ MANILA BULLETIN)
With the help of their teachers, parents, and conservationists in the municipality, students-explorers charted at least 10,000 plants and animals and about 2,000 different species in their backyards through the first-ever “Backyard Bioblitz.”
Organized by the Department of Education (DepEd)-Baras and the Masungi Georeserve Foundation, the first “Backyard Bioblitz” in the country was also supported by the National Geographic Society, Global Shapers Manila, and the Municipality of Baras.
Masungi Georeserve Foundation project manager Deil Galenzoga explained that the students from 15 local elementary and high schools collected and identified as many species as possible in their backyards over one week using the iNaturalist app.