Wild DNA

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Description: Training citizens in surveying and restoring biodiversity with environmental DNA
Dates

State ongoing
Start 2018-03-01
Form updated 2021-09-10

Report authors
Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
info@scienceforall.world
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.