0202410171213
Nature refuges account for most of Queensland's conservation network, but committed landholders have few resources for understanding and monitoring biodiversity values on their reserves. Simultaneously, eager citizen science organisations and tertiary students want locations to practice their skills that have real world applications. Through this project, the Queensland Trust for Nature (QTFN) will foster collaborations between The University of Queensland, environmental community groups, nature refuge landholders and their adjacent communities to solve this problem and fill our knowledge gaps concerning biodiversity values on private land.
It will do this by formalising an annual rotation of field camps where data is collected by citizen scientists on the participating nature refuge for that year, remembering citizens scientists are anyone; local community members and landholders, ecology students and academics, community-centred environmental groups and local community members. Experts to novices, everyone is welcome! QTFN will develop a system that utilises freely available citizen science phone apps to streamline data acquisition and collation and use this data to inform reports and management plans tailored for each participating Nature Refuge.STARDIT ID:
0202410171213State ongoing
Start 2021-01-01
End 2023-12-31
Form updated 2024-10-17
Inputs
Queensland Trust for Nature (QTFN)
Task: Organizer
Office of the Chief Scientist of Queensland
Task: Funder
Outputs and impacts
4 weekend-long camps focused on learning methods for surveying biodiversity organised annually (number of years uncertain) (link)
Impact: Citizen scientists taught methods for surveying biodiversity