A summary of our 2025-2026 Newt Patrol season, including roadkill surveys, assisted migration, and tabling events

Conservation statistics like habitat loss and extinction rates are often too abstract to resonate with people. Caring about a number requires more effort than a scrolling thumb is willing to give. Save the Newts - The Volunteer Effect/ game by Karan Gathani Games like Newt Crosser and Save the Newts (in 2D and 3D) change this by making the situation personal. When you are the one moving an amphibian across a dark road, the stakes become real. In Save the Newts, you see the la

This post was created following a webinar by Deb Kramer, Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, and Merav Vonshak, BioBlitz Club as part of our...

A 1.5" newt trying to cross Alma Bridge Rd. Luckily we found it and moved it safely to the hill side The first 3 months of the 2022-2023...

I love gadgets. Especially the gadgets that help me find and document critters. Here are some of my favorites: The essentials: a smartphone with macro lenses, and a spoon A spoon: spoons are the most useful thing when you go out and document little critters. They are great for scooping things out of water and taking closeup macro shots. Where to get: eat some ice cream, keep the spoon. A damselfly larva on an ice cream spoon Aquatic critter set: in addition to you plastic sp

Download and print our short wildflower guide here and go out and enjoy spring!

Concerned Citizens Fight to Reverse Local Extinction Trend, Seek Volunteers Over 100 heartfelt comments were read out loud, one by one,...

The first ever Gall Week event took place between 10/2-10/10/2021. As the project had only materialized two weeks earlier, it was...

Next time you're out for a walk in your neighborhood or on a hike in the Bay Area, try looking closely at some of the oaks, especially...

It's our fourth anniversary today - happy anniversary everyone! Our first BioBlitz was exactly four years ago on 8/19/2017, in Coyote...

The South Bay BioBlitzes iNaturalist project combines all the BioBlitzes we’ve done so far: 679 people have documented together over...

After the beginning of COVID pandemic and the shutdown of public events in Santa Clara County, we canceled the rest of our events for the...

We use iNaturalist to document our efforts. It's an invaluable tool for us. If you don't know what iNaturalist is, or if you are not sure...