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Description: Training citizens in surveying and restoring biodiversity with environmental DNA
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2018-03-01
Form updated 2023-11-18
Report authors
Location
Victorian Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia
Aims
Involve citizens in collecting data to support evidence-based environmental policy
Train people to collect and analyse environmental DNA samples from critically endangered species in the Victorian Central Highlands.
Train people in restoration techniques, including using remote monitoring of sound and video and drone surveying.
Publish, including novel baseline geotagged data in the ‘Atlas of Living Australia’.
Keywords
citizen science
edna
dna
endangered species
Victorian Central Highlands
biodiversity
Inputs
individual
Jack Nunn
Method: Face to face meetings (rural and metropolitan), online meetings, online discussions, shared documents, grant applications
funding
(link)
28,300.00 (AUD)
Training citizens in surveying and restoring biodiversity with environmental DNA
Outputs and impacts
publication/report/document
Report
Science for All - Publicly funded research report (June 2018-December 2019)
learning item
New eDNA sampling method
Proven method of detecting endangered arboreal mammal (gymnobelideus leadbeateri) using eDNA
This project is still in progress and more information will be added to future versions of this report.