Are you fascinated by flora, fauna and fungi, but don’t know what they are? Do you like being out in nature and photographing plants, animals or fungi? Do you want to help document biodiversity in the places you visit? Then iNaturalist is the app for you!

Come along to a hands-on workshop on Bindea (Porcupine Reserve) at 10am Sunday, August 25. You’ll learn how to take photographs of plant and animals and upload them to iNaturalist for identification by many experts from around Australia and the world. Bring your smart phone with the iNaturalist app already installed (or a digital camera) and join others in documenting the plants, animals and fungi of Bindea.

The workshop will run for about an hour and will take place at Porcupine Lookout. Afterwards, group participants will walk into the recently burnt area to record plant and animal recovery to the hazard reduction burn. If you are hungry, you can stick around for a barbecue. If you are still keen to do more recording after lunch, some people may head off on a longer bushwalk to record other species.

The workshop will be run by Jon Sullivan and Tim Curran, both ecologists at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Jon is an avid nature watcher and the site administrator for iNaturalist NZ. He has run dozens of workshops on how to use iNaturalist and obsessively (his word!) makes thousands of observations of nature every week. His iNaturalist user name is https://inaturalist.org/people/jon_sullivan.

Tim is a relative newcomer to iNaturalist and was converted by Jon. Tim grew up in Gunnedah, bushwalking on Bindea. He has researched the ecology of semi-evergreen vine thicket (dry rainforest) found on Bindea and elsewhere around the northwest slopes. These days he mostly studies fire ecology, especially how well plants burn on his ‘plant barbecue’. He is preparing a fire management plan for Bindea for GULG. His iNaturalist user name is https://inaturalist.org/people/timcurran

You can also explore and join the Bindea biodiversity project here: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/bindea-porcupine-reserve-and-surrounds-plants-animals-and-fungi

 

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