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Updating our taxonomic backbone for accuracy, names matching and better searchability

11th December 2025

"Your hip bone's connected to your back bone" goes the old song, but did you know the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) uses a backbone as well? Ours is…

rows of fruit flies pinned in a collection

New projects will fill gaps in Australia’s national biodiversity data system

11th December 2025

Six new biodiversity data mobilisation projects will contribute approximately 85,000 new records to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) under our Aust…

Director’s Update – December 2025

11th December 2025

Australia Partners Globally to Unlock Biodiversity Data

a group of feral pigs standing in a field

ALA Webinar: How biosecurity data are protecting Australia’s ecosystems

21st November 2025

Discover how biosecurity data are transforming the fight against invasive species in Australia. Join this webinar, hosted by the Atlas of Living Austr…

A tiny Swan Galaxias fish in a mountain stream

galaxias: tiny-fish inspired tool for huge sea of research data

23rd October 2025

Our coding tool {galaxias} makes it easier for researchers to share their biodiversity data for greater open science impact.

From snapshot to supercharged science data

9th September 2025

A new dataset sees verified images from wildlife camera traps available in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) through the Wildlife Observatory of Aus…

Director’s Update – September 2025

9th September 2025

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of our Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) newsletter. We are pleased to announce the release of our new Five-Y…

We’re frond of plants – ALA at the Australasian Plant Pathology Association conference 2025

9th September 2025

Plants are the third biggest type of occurrence record in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), with over 24 million occurrence records. And scientific…