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Counting Koalas Across the Country: Citizen Science

3rd November 2015

The Koala is one of the most recognizable and celebrated species in Australian fauna, inhabiting Eucalyptus woodlands and forests through ou…

WeDigBio 2015

16th October 2015

WeDigBio, short for Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Bio-collections, is a four-day global event taking place during October 22-25 2015, that will…

Making Tracks to the Atlas: From OzTrack to ZoaTrack

21st September 2015

From big Crocodiles in Cape York to Little Penguins in and around St Kilda, the biodiversity projects that incorporate tracking devices are providing …

Bush Blitz NT: Judbarra / Gregory National Park

18th August 2015

A team including staff from the Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, Indigenous rangers and fi…

WildCount: Help sift through animal selfies for science!

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…

DigiVol reaches 1000 volunteers and more!

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

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…

SA Museum Volunteers & DigiVol: speeding up the digitisation process

Earlier this month (11-17 May 2015) marked National Volunteer Week, a week dedicated to celebrating and thanking the 6 million Australian volunteer…

The ALA User Survey is now available!

The Atlas of Living Australia encourages its users to complete a quick online survey on the features and functions of the website. The Atlas o…