Atlas of Living Australia
The ACT Herpetological Association supports the collection of community contributed information on sightings of reptiles and amphibians in the ACT and Southern Tablelands region.
The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) is a large nation wide project that to pull together biodiveristy data and contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. You can contribute your own local sightings data and get involved here.
On the Atlas website you can:
As well, you can get facts and figures about the information contained in the Atlas from the Atlas dashboard.
The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) is a large nation wide project that to pull together biodiveristy data and contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. You can contribute your own local sightings data and get involved here.
On the Atlas website you can:
- access information pages for each species containing photos, descriptions, maps and observations;
- access scientific and common names;
- explore the flora and fauna reported around your neighbourhood;
- learn about Australia’s biodiversity collections at museums, herbaria and other institutions;
- learn about citizen science projects;
- map, analyse and visualise biodiversity and environmental data and trends;
- access tools to help track changes in biodiversity and the environment;
- download and use open source tools;
- download biodiversity data;
- access images, literature and genetic information through Australian nodes of international data repositories; and
- volunteer for digitisation projects.
As well, you can get facts and figures about the information contained in the Atlas from the Atlas dashboard.