Wild Backyards
Wild Backyards
is a Citizen Science initiative, conducted by the Queensland Museum, Quest Newspapers and the Atlas of Living Australia.
This online portal makes it easy for you to identify your backyard finds with photographs and user-friendly information of common species.
You too can be a backyard explorer and discover more about the hundreds of animals living in your local area.
By uploading your photographs and sightings to the online Wild Backyards site, you will be helping scientists track the many species throughout Brisbane, providing an invaluable record of our biodiversity.
Your sightings will also be recorded on the Atlas of Living Australia portal - a world first interactive online encyclopaedia of biodiversity.
The Atlas of Living Australia is a collaborative research tool using the latest technology to pull together information held in biological collections around Australia, as well as diverse sightings from the general public.
Brisbane is recognised as the most biologically diverse capital city in Australia. As recently as 2005 the Queensland Museum discovered more than 300 new species and many rare species in the urban bushland throughout Brisbane.
Wild Backyards is a partnership between Queensland Museum, the Atlas of Living Australia and Quest Newspapers.
