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World Parks Congress BioBlitz in Sydney’s Olympic Park

30th April 2015

In November 2014 (during the World Parks Congress Public Festival ‘Planetfest‘) over 500 children, scientists, naturalists, and World Park…

Citizen Science and Biosecurity: bee alert and bee alarmed

Australian Citizen Scientists are busy (like bees!) documenting the spread of an exotic and invasive South African carder bee, Afranthidium Immanthidi…

Fungimap: putting Australian fungi on the map

29th January 2015

Fungimap is one of the largest citizen science groups in Australia and – with over 100,000 fungi records available online– is the biggest single c…

Counting koalas for conservation

15th January 2015

The National Koala Count is an innovative, large-scale citizen science initiative developed by the National Parks Association of NSW (NPA), which runs…

Calling all citizen scientists

5th November 2014

With summer almost here, now is the perfect time to get out of the house and enjoy Australia’s great outdoors. And what better way to do it than by …

Upcoming event: ReefBlitz, Cannonvale Beach, QLD.

9th October 2014

On October the 24th and 25th, the first ever ReefBlitz will be happening at Cannonvale Beach (just north of Airlie Beach) in Queensland. Whether you w…

DigiVol reaches 100,000 transcriptions and a mollusc milestone

2nd October 2014

DigiVol is a collaboration between the Australian Museum and the Atlas of Living Australia that was initially an experimental foray into crowd-sourcin…

Foundations for the Future

Foundations for the future: a long-term plan for Australian ecosystem science was launched by the Chief Scientist of Australia Prof Ian Chubb AC last…

Citizen scientists track Gang-gangs in Canberra

28th April 2014

Celebrating the 50th birthday of the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG), citizen scientists across the Canberra region are recording sightings of Gan…