Biodiversity Days 2026

Biodiversity Days is a month-long event in May, to honour the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22) with a series of engagement opportunities that aim to celebrate and raise awareness of the fragile species, genes and ecosystems that sustain our communities.

This year’s sixth annual Biodiversity Days includes a diversity of in-person events. Dig into our 2026 program to celebrate biodiversity, with more events to come every week Biodiversity Days 2026 | UBC Botanical Garden

UBC Vancouver is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam People. The land has always been a place of learning for Indigenous People, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.

Biodiversity is integral to past, present and future communities, yet we are losing ecosystems, species and genes faster than we can account for them. The extinction crisis requires inclusive solutions to prevent ecological collapse.

Biodiversity Days is an annual event that aims to:

1. Raise awareness of biodiversity and its importance to human and ecological health;

2. Mobilize local and global action to stop the loss of biodiversity; and,

3. Build a generation of stewards, scientists and citizens that actively protect and restore biodiversity

Biodiversity Days is made possible with funding provided through UBC Botanical Garden Community Outreach Program and the SEEDS Sustainability Program.