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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
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Updating our taxonomic backbone for accuracy, names matching and better searchability Posted on 11th December 2025 "Your hip bone's connected to your back bone" goes the old song, but did you know the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) uses a backbone as well? Ours is…
New projects will fill gaps in Australia’s national biodiversity data system Posted on 11th December 2025 Six new biodiversity data mobilisation projects will contribute approximately 85,000 new records to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) under our Aust…
Director’s Update – December 2025 Posted on 11th December 2025 Australia Partners Globally to Unlock Biodiversity Data
ALA Webinar: How biosecurity data are protecting Australia’s ecosystems Posted on 21st November 2025 Discover how biosecurity data are transforming the fight against invasive species in Australia. Join this webinar, hosted by the Atlas of Living Austr…
galaxias: tiny-fish inspired tool for huge sea of research data Posted on 23rd October 2025 Our coding tool {galaxias} makes it easier for researchers to share their biodiversity data for greater open science impact.
ALA Newsletter September 2025 Posted on 12th September 2025 The ALA September 2025 newsletter is out now – featuring the latest project updates, research insights, upcoming events, and more!
From snapshot to supercharged science data Posted on 9th September 2025 A new dataset sees verified images from wildlife camera traps available in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) through the Wildlife Observatory of Aus…
Director’s Update – September 2025 Posted on 9th September 2025 Welcome to the September 2025 edition of our Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) newsletter. We are pleased to announce the release of our new Five-Y…
We’re frond of plants – ALA at the Australasian Plant Pathology Association conference 2025 Posted on 9th September 2025 Plants are the third biggest type of occurrence record in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), with over 24 million occurrence records. And scientific…
