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ALA Impact stories Protecting Australia’s restricted access plants and animals through better data access EcoAssets launched: access streamlined data for environmental reporting Bushfire recovery projects: Increasing our understanding of how nature responds to fire Echidna CSI: Using citizen science to track echidnas throughout Australia ALA helps to stop pests in their tracks Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia: unlocking the treasures in Australia’s biodiversity literature International Living Atlases: Australian software used across the globe
ALA Webinars ALA Insights: Taxonomy and names matching in the ALA ALA Webinar: How biosecurity data are protecting Australia’s ecosystems ALA Insights: The hidden world of sensitive species data ALA Webinar: Harnessing biodiversity data to support Australian industry ALA Webinar: Generous interfaces for discovering complex biodiversity data ALA Webinar: Exploring next gen biodiversity detection technologies ALA Webinar: Understanding Australian Biodiversity with Technology ALA Webinar: Transforming Australia’s biological collections to open data ALA National Science Week 2023 recordings ALA Webinar: Safeguarding Sensitive Species
Director’s Update – September 2026 Posted on 3rd September 2026 Welcome to the Atlas of Living Australia September 2026 newsletter The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has recently released its 2026-27 Annual Work P…
ALA Newsletter September 2026 Posted on 2nd September 2026 Happy Biodiversity Month! Read about our new QGIS plugin Quail, Species List tool update and more.
Updated Species List tool now live Posted on 31st August 2026 We've updated our Species List tool. This tool lets users make, upload and maintain a personalised list of species of interest.
Where there’s a will, there’s a Quail – ALA data now natively in QGIS Posted on 31st August 2026 We've released Quail, a new plugin for the QGIS geospatial program.
Australia’s national environmental research infrastructure delivering billions in benefits Posted on 31st August 2026 A new report from Lateral Economics estimates that Australia's national environmental research infrastructure delivers more than $1.5 billion per year…
Big moth energy: Collecting moth data with citizen science Posted on 17th July 2026 National Moth Week is a chance to celebrate moths and maybe spot some in your neighbourhood. For inspo, we spoke with wildlife photographer and citize…
ALA Newsletter May 2026 Posted on 4th June 2026 The ALA May 2026 newsletter is here – with news, how we’re supporting open biodiversity science, research highlights, and our systems and services…
Director’s Update – May 2026 Posted on 4th June 2026 As we enter National Reconciliation Week with its 2026 theme of ‘All In’ it’s a timely reminder of the responsibility we share in im…
ALA Insights: Taxonomy and names matching in the ALA Posted on 21st April 2026 In this ALA Insights session find out how our taxonomy and names matching works, and how to use the taxonomy in the ALA to find records.
