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Your contributions matter! Add your native wildlife and plant images and sightings records to the Atlas of Living Australia where they can be found and used by scientists in biodiversity research and management.

The Atlas is one of BirdLife Australia’s greatest resources, allowing us to track changes in birds across the country. Since 1998 a dedicated band of over 7000 atlassers have amassed over 420,000 surveys, comprising over 7.1 million bird records.

Create a database of Australian biodiversity.

Collect plant-pollinator interaction data for conservation

Evaluate the removal of mid-storey density in disturbed forests using prescribed fire, weed control and bush regeneration as a method to restore BMAD affected forest.