‘I was just going out as a kid doing what I loved but recording the birds I saw as I did,’ Sean Dooley says. He is pictured here, at age 11, birdwatching at 'Seaford swamp', a fresh water wetland in Melbourne's south-east.‘I was just going out as a kid doing what I loved but recording the birds I saw as I did,’ Sean Dooley says. He is pictured here, at age 11, birdwatching at 'Seaford swamp', a fresh water wetland in Melbourne's south-east.
In 2001, the Edithvale-Seaford wetlands became the only fully urban Ramsar-listed wetland in Australia. That was only achieved because of the monitoring data they and other avid birders had collected demonstrating how the wetlands are vital habitat for migratory shorebirds and waterbirds, such as the
Kim Garratt, an environmental investigator at ACF, says she had seen enough evidence from overseas crowd-sourced investigations to know how impactful they could be here. From there it would undertake an analysis of threatened species records, satellite imagery, vegetation mapping and consult the register of Environment Protection and Biodiversity“Because we were able to cover so much ground so quickly, in some cases the bulldozing was still happening and we were able to actually stop it in its tracks,” says Garratt, citing one example where the team uncovered an area of 250 hectares ofthat has swelled in popularity to involve over 60 thousand volunteers...
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