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PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.

Who we are

Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager

The project is mainly conducted in Southeast Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

How it works

Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.

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This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.

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Pollinator GIS is a data collection tool and learning platform, which will be available for both iOS and android in 2024

 

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PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.
Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager
Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.
This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.
3D Printable Bee House is now available! The 21cm long removable houses let you easily observe the pollinator and create green corridors in your back yard.
PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.
Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager
Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.
We are proudly supported by
This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.
3D Printable Bee House is now available! The 21cm long removable houses let you easily observe the pollinator and create green corridors in your back yard.
PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.
Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager
Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.
We are proudly supported by
This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.
Pollinator GIS
3D Printable Bee House is now available! The 21cm long removable houses let you easily observe the pollinator and create green corridors in your back yard.

PollinatorWatch

PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.
Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li
Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager
Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.
We are proudly supported by
This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.
Pollinator GIS
3D Printable Bee House is now available! The 21cm long removable houses let you easily observe the pollinator and create green corridors in your back yard.
PollinatorWatch is a community based collaborative research project aiming to raise the awareness of pollinators and empower the community in urban and semi-urban green spaces by inviting the public to participate in contributing to the research database for determining and mapping the population of pollinators in the urban area. Forest fragmentation has an impact on the decline of wildlife populations, especially pollinators. Green spaces, such as public parks, home backyard, and school garden plays a vitally important role to support wild pollinators as food and nesting sources. These green spaces can create the corridors to connect their habitats. Since the urban landscape is very huge and scatter around, it creates a challenge for scientists to collect the quality datasets. The project provides an opportunity to invite the Queensland community and the general public to undertake a role as a citizen scientist by collecting the data in public areas or their own backyards. ﷯ “Everyone can be scientists”. In order to achieve this concept, a proper tool is required to provide a basic understanding of data collection. One of the aims of the project is to develop a simple and interactive portable platform for pollinator classification and population monitoring. On this platform, users are able to receive information and learn knowledge about the surrounding pollinators and report the location and population using their portable devices. We will work with Pollinator Link in this pilot approach. This local community commits to creating wild pollinator corridors across different suburbs around Brisbane metropolitan area. PollinatorWatch provides a solution for engaging and growing community’s awareness by working together as citizen scientists to address the issues of pollinator population, introduced species, and understand the distribution of their population in Brisbane and raising the awareness of the function of urban green space for supporting wildlife population. The project is expected to achieve several outcomes to benefit the communities, academic, and relevant authorities. First, it promotes community engagement with long term data collection of the common pollinators in their backyards and other green spaces around the urban/semiurban ecosystem of the southern Brisbane. The participating communities will be more aware of the pollinators and their surrounding and learn more about their benefits to the environment. The general public as members of PollinatorWatch can also gain more knowledge about the pollinators and scientific data collection skills. Second, it can trigger users’ interest by providing an easy-to-access crowdsourcing platform for them to upload, find, and use the data. With sufficient funds, the platform can be potentially extended to cover more regions in the future. Finally, the project expects to create about 60 datasets for researchers to analyse the common (native and non-native) pollinator groups of mammal and insect. This will help authorities to improve pollinator management plan and raise awareness that “good” wildlife is always around us and “we” can play a part to provide habitat “food and nesting resource” for these creatures.
Program Lead Dr. Richard, Yu-Chang Li
Project Facilitator Miss Kimmim Sinhaseni BCST Grant & Training Manager
Developing Application: a series of pilot activities will be conducted in the first six months, which include selecting the common pollinators with the community partners, developing an interactive platform based on the selected pollinator groups for users to learn and upload their findings.
 Recruiting citizen scientists: participants will be recruited from the existing community groups, Pollinator Link, and by creating a Meetup group. The Meetup workshops will be conducted 12 times since across the project period. These will include the introduction of the project, how to use the platform to collect data, how to promote your backyard for pollinators, and learning to implement the nature photographing technique. 
 Collecting data: participants will collect data using the portable platform this project provides. The data include the types of pollinators, their population and location, with flower resources, time, and weather condition. The project will be divided into two target groups. The first group is the platinum members, which include the members of Pollinator Link, Bushcare communities, and the general public who is strongly committed to the project. The platinum members will commit to collect data for 12 months. The activities will be conducted in their own backyard or targeted green spaces every week. The second group is the gold member, who have no commitment for long-term data collection but can still access the platform to report their findings and learn more about the common pollinators. In this way, all members can have access to the platform to study more about the pollinators and report and share the photos and coordination of their findings to the database or social media. 
 Analysing Data: The data will be analysed in seasonally (every three months) and summarised annually including mapping and classifying the native and non-native pollinator population.
We are proudly supported by
This project is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between academic, community, and industry, which includes the entomologists focusing on insect pollination to identify and classify pollinators, the ICT experts with relevant technical skills to develop a portable data entry and learning platform, the researchers focusing on environmental conservation to analyses the datasets, and community based environmental groups that cares for and values the natural resources and biodiversity of South East Queensland.
Pollinator GIS
3D Printable Bee House is now available! The 21cm long removable houses let you easily observe the pollinator and create green corridors in your back yard.