ALA Blog
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
ALA Webinars
- ALA Webinar: How biosecurity data are protecting Australia’s ecosystems
- ALA Webinar: Harnessing biodiversity data to support Australian industry
- ALA Webinar: Generous interfaces for discovering complex biodiversity data
- ALA Webinar: Exploring next gen biodiversity detection technologies
- ALA Webinar: Understanding Australian Biodiversity with Technology
- ALA Webinar: Transforming Australia’s biological collections to open data
- ALA National Science Week 2023 recordings
- ALA Webinar: Safeguarding Sensitive Species
- ALA Webinar: Advances in Genomics and Biological Collections
- ALA webinar: Advances in Biodiversity Modelling
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Today we’re celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Despite progress, women are still under-represented in science, technol…
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Seedbank data from across Australia is easier to access, search and visualise, thanks to updates to the Australian Virtual Seed Bank Portal.
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The ALA December 2025 newsletter is out now – featuring our Year in Review, new Australian Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Program projects, and new …
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"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…
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Six new biodiversity data mobilisation projects will contribute approximately 85,000 new records to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) under our Aust…
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Australia Partners Globally to Unlock Biodiversity Data
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Discover how biosecurity data are transforming the fight against invasive species in Australia. Join this webinar, hosted by the Atlas of Living Austr…
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Our coding tool {galaxias} makes it easier for researchers to share their biodiversity data for greater open science impact.
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The ALA September 2025 newsletter is out now – featuring the latest project updates, research insights, upcoming events, and more!