Data in the ALA: bushfire affected areas (2019-2020 bushfire season) Posted on 30th September 2020 The national dataset of bushfire affected areas for the 2019-20 bushfire season is accessible in the Atlas of Living Australia.
Data Quality Project update Posted on 2nd July 2020 The ALA Data Quality project team is working hard to complete and release its first piece of software. But there’s still time to test and provi…
Aussie icons team up to tackle climate change Posted on 22nd June 2020 Two of Australia’s most iconic ecosystems, eucalypt trees and reef corals, could end up being the ‘best of pals’ when it comes to fighting clima…
Data Quality Project baseline survey results Posted on 8th April 2020 The results of our first Data Quality Project survey are in and show positive perceptions of ALA data quality.
Updates to ALA names and taxonomy Posted on 17th February 2020 We updated the ALA's taxonomy between Monday 17 February and Thursday 21 February 2020.
eDNA records now available on ALA Posted on 11th February 2020 From monitoring fish species on reefs to mapping microbes in soils or searching for evidence of a monster in Loch Ness, eDNA based surveys are a scien…
GEO Week 2019 Ministerial Summit Posted on 12th November 2019 Last week the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental body of 105 member countries and 127 participating organisations, hosted GEO Wee…
iNaturalist Australia launched Posted on 2nd October 2019 This week we launched iNaturalist Australia, the Australian node of iNaturalist, the world’s leading global social biodiversity network. We now …
ALA helps improve environmental impact assessments in Western Australia Posted on 24th June 2019 In 2018, the WA government launched the Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessments (IBSA) to improve the availability of environmental data to supp…
