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Over 10 million collections-based records on the Atlas.

It was early in 2014 that the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) announced that it had reached one billion downloads and now in 2015, the ALA is proud to…

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…

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…

Bringing south-east Arnhem Land stories to south-east Australia mob

29th April 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…

New to the Atlas: PhyloLink Phylogenetic tool released

22nd April 2015

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has released PhyloLink – a new tool for visualising phylogenetic trees and exploring data from phylogenetic pers…

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: The Olkola People

17th April 2015

The Olkola People, CSIRO researchers from Cairns and Townsville, and the Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre (TIEC) are working together to look a…

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…

The Atlas welcomes two new university herbarium data providers

24th March 2015

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) welcomes two new university herbaria collections: the Janet Cosh Herbarium (WOLL, based at the University of Woll…

ALA Educational Resources for primary school classes

13th March 2015

It can be beneficial (and more importantly, fun!) to move the science classes out of the classroom and into the outdoors, and primary school teacher…