WildCount: Help sift through animal selfies for science! Posted on 14th August 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia is set to receive a dataset that is bursting with thousands of ‘wildlife selfies’ which will eventually f…
Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence Posted on 11th August 2015 AOO and EOO Area of Occupancy (AOO) and Extent of Occurrence (EOO) are two ‘statistics’ used by the IUCN for their Red List of Threatened Species …
An easier way to login to the ALA Posted on 10th August 2015 From the family pet’s name to your Mother’s maiden name, a favourite species of Australian wildlife or just plain old haphazard ‘pa…
The Australian Plant Pest Database and the ALA Posted on 22nd July 2015 The Australian Plant Pest Database (APPD) is a national, secure online database of pests and diseases of Australia’s plant species. The delivery a…
DigiVol reaches 1000 volunteers and more! Posted on 13th July 2015 The Atlas of Living Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Museum, developed DigiVol to harness the power of online volunteers to digitise bi…
Our ‘Report a Sighting’ site has been refreshed Posted on 26th June 2015 You might have noticed that the Atlas of Living Australia website has gone through a few changes in appearance over the past 6 months. We are curren…
Generate points Posted on 19th June 2015 This tool enables a regular square grid of points to be generated over any user-defined area. It is anticipated that the points generated would be use…
Returning to the remote Country of the Ngandi People Posted on 9th June 2015 ** This post has been written and produced by the Yugul Mangi Rangers of south-east Arnhem Land, with Emilie Ens and Mitchell Scott (Macquarie Univers…
Working together to share and improve the digitisation of biodiversity Posted on 1st June 2015 During April 13-17 2015, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and CSIRO hosted an international summit focused on data sharing and strategies for leve…