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Good Intentions Gone Wrong
May 16, 2024
Today, citizen science has grown increasingly popular for those interested in conserving and collecting data for various species, especially those endangered or with limited habitats. The contributions of citizen scientists are invaluable, as they...
Read More ShareFeeling artsy? Submit a design to our bat logo competition!
July 24, 2023
To give you the chance to show off your design skills - and because the community is such an important part of this program - we thought we’d take this opportunity to run a...
Read More ShareCitizen Science update: Preliminary biodiversity assessment in Bowgada
June 20, 2022
CCWA’s Citizen Science team was back in the field at the end of May - this time surveying the biodiversity values of a property in Bowgada, located in the Shire of Perenjori (Badimia country)...
Read More ShareCitizen Science update: Bird banding and conservation in Karakin
May 30, 2022
CCWA’s latest Citizen Science programme - Living with Nature - has begun with a busy May weekend in Karakin, a peri-urban suburb approximately 120km north of Perth on Yued Noongar country.
Read More ShareA flying start for Citizen Science in 2022: seabird monitoring at Rat Island
April 14, 2022
CCWA’s Citizen Science program for 2022 is off to a flying start!
Read More Share‘Another good tern out’ – Conservationists hail successful year for WA Fairy Terns as breeding season comes to a close
March 16, 2022
Conservationists are celebrating another successful breeding season for one of WA’s most iconic and vulnerable species as efforts continue to protect the Australian Fairy Tern.
Read More ShareInside the night-time operation to tag and track vulnerable Fairy Terns
February 09, 2022
Under normal circumstances, the sight of a dozen-or-so torchlit figures stalking silently across a suburban beach, in the dead of night, might be a little concerning.
Read More ShareNew plan to protect iconic vulnerable Fairy Terns
January 17, 2022
A new community-led strategy to help protect the threatened Australian Fairy Tern has been launched today.
Read More ShareWorld leading restoration in our own backyard
December 21, 2021
Words: Steph Murphey For my first ever bird-surveying adventure, I had the pleasure of joining the Conservation Council of WA’s (CCWA) Citizen Science team and a group of incredible volunteers on a trip to...
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