citizen science

Urban Fire Management Walk & Talk with Club BUSHY
Urban Fire Management Walk & Talk with Club BUSHY

Urban Fire Management Walk & Talk with Club BUSHY

Join Club BUSHY and AABR for a walk-and-talk on Urban Fire Management in Sydney’s North Shore. Myles Holloway (Bushfire Mitigation Officer, Hornsby Shire Council), Erryn Blacklock (Bush Regenerator, Bushy Landscapes), and Liz Blacklock (Ecologist, Bushy Landscapes) will discuss the opportunities and challenges of urban fire management. We’ll explore the reality of balancing ecological burning and asset protection, review the goals and outcomes of recent burns [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-11-13T08:57:26+10:00Categories: AABR Events, Bush Regeneration Skills, NSW/ACT Branch|Tags: #bushfire recovery, AABR, buhsy landscapes, Bush Regeneration, citizen science, community_engagement, drinkbobby, Hornsby Council, NSW, Research, Sydney, Training, walk and talk, Working Group|

Great Southern Bioblitz at Lane Cove National Park
Great Southern Bioblitz at Lane Cove National Park

Great Southern Bioblitz at Lane Cove National Park

Join AABR and the Friends of Lane Cove National Park for a hands-on Bioblitz using iNaturalist at the proposed site of a new data centre near Lane Cove Valley NP. We're rallying to document every species we can—plants, insects, birds, fungi, and more. Let's build a strong record of the biodiversity that calls this area [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-10-02T15:45:44+10:00Categories: AABR Events, Citizen Science, NSW/ACT Branch|Tags: Bush Regeneration, citizen science, inaturalist, NSW, skills_development, volunteer|

Collecting and recording data using iNaturalist and with input from others
Collecting and recording data using iNaturalist and with input from others

Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New

Collecting and recording data using iNaturalist and with input from others

Collecting and recording data using iNaturalist and with input from others A recent (October 2024) comprehensive biodiversity survey of Wategora Reserve and Everley Park along Duck River in western Sydney has shed light on the rich ecological tapestry of this urban corridor. Led by Thomas Mesaglio, the study not only catalogued an impressive array of [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-09-12T18:10:00+10:00Categories: Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New|Tags: Bush Regeneration, bushcare, citizen science, community_engagement, inaturalist, skills_development|

Having Fun with iNaturalist
Having Fun with iNaturalist

Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New

Having Fun with iNaturalist

Having Fun with iNaturalist Kate Watson. AABR Member and iNaturalist addict. iNaturalist is a powerful tool for conservation. It is the largest citizen science platform in the world, with more than eight million people contributing to it. The Australian branch is backed by CSIRO and the data feeds into the Atlas of Living Australia. The [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-09-12T18:03:48+10:00Categories: Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New|Tags: citizen science, community_engagement, inaturalist, skills_development, volunteer|

iNaturalist and bush regeneration & the GSB
iNaturalist and bush regeneration & the GSB

Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New

iNaturalist and bush regeneration & the GSB

iNaturalist and bush regeneration Petra Holland tells us about iNaturalist and its value for bush regenerators and how Hornsby Council use it. iNaturalist background iNaturalist is one of the world’s most popular biodiversity observation platforms. It is an online, biodiversity-focused, citizen science platform and app. Its main goal is to create a nature-based social network [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-09-12T17:25:44+10:00Categories: Bush Regen skills, The Bush Regenerator, What's New|Tags: bushcare, citizen science, community_engagement, event, inaturalist, skills_development|

City Nature Challenge at La Perouse with expert guide Danny Hirschfeld
City Nature Challenge at La Perouse with expert guide Danny Hirschfeld

City Nature Challenge at La Perouse with expert guide Danny Hirschfeld

Be part of the City Nature Challenge and join us for a bioblitz in critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub at La Perouse to record wild plants and organisms using iNaturalist. Danny Hirschfeld will provide some Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub background information and be on hand for plant identification. Danny was the driver of the bus that got [...]

Suzanne Pritchard2025-04-17T17:55:56+10:00Categories: AABR Events, Bush Regeneration Skills, Citizen Science|Tags: citizen science, Eastern Suburb Banksia Scrub, inaturalist, Walk & Talk|