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iNaturalist Australia: City Nature Challenge and major milestone

Australia participated in the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge for the first time in 2020, and iNaturalist Australia has reached 1 million observatio…

Unlocking the secrets of a colossal collection

23rd April 2020

A team at Museums Victoria investigates a fascinating collection of almost 12,000 butterflies and 40,000 moths, donated to the museum by George Lyell …

Media release – Citizen science to aid bushfire recovery

20th April 2020

This article first appeared on CSIRO on April 20th 2020.

image of a velvet ant specimen

Play the mimicry game with Australia’s velvet ants

CSIRO and the University of Leeds are calling on people to play a short online game that will help investigate mimicry among velvet ant species.

infographic of survey results

Data Quality Project baseline survey results

The results of our first Data Quality Project survey are in and show positive perceptions of ALA data quality.

Bushfire Citizen Science Forum participants sitting around a table with laptops open

Citizen Science and Bushfire Recovery

26th February 2020

The 2019-20 bushfire season has been a historically significant and unprecedented season, wreaking destruction on a massive scale and impacting biodiv…

ALA Data Quality Project launched

20th February 2020

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has launched a Data Quality Project to develop products that improve access to data, and ability to assess fitness…