The Atlas of Living Australia is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from Australia’s academic, scientific and environmental communities and the general public and makes it available and usable online.

ALA can be used to:

• 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.
• volunteer for digitisation projects.

Read more about ALA news, projects and contributer's blogs here.