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Monitoring biodiversity
the number of different native species and their distribution

Friends of The Pinnacle members have always had a strong interest in observing and documenting native species on the reserve. The introduction of Canberra Nature Map (now logo link) a decade ago has made it easy for everyone who is interested to contribute species observations that are expert verified to a national database.

Many of our members have actively participated in increasing our knowledge of the reserve in this way and we encourage all visitors to contribute. As well as improving our understanding of the reserve's biodiversity it is a great way to have species identified and enhance your experience on the reserve.

All species are automatically recorded with their exact location and logo link sorts all sightings into spatial regions, including The Pinnacle Nature Reserve and all other reserves. Anyone can access the information in this way from their website.

All fotpin's species information in the flora and fauna pages comes from logo link apart from Plants and Birds, for which fotpin had extensive lists before it existed.

logo link calculates a Species Richness Score for each of the areas it aggregates sightings over. This is more than just a count of species; it weights them for rareness and also includes (with a low weighting) introduced species. On this score, The Pinnacle Nature Reserve ranks fifth among the ACT urban nature reserves.

Just as important as knowing what native species are found on the reserve and how many different species there are is knowing how they are distributed. Appropriate management and protection of the reserve depends on a good understanding how its biodiversity varies across the different parts of the reserve.

The reserve is far from uniform and the increased information obtained through logo link has shown that there are areas with much higher biodiversity than we initially thought as well as confirming and improving our knowledge about the biodiversity of other areas.

You can help

All visitors to the reserve with a gps-enabled camera can improve our knowledge even further, so join up to logo link, take your camera along on your next visit to the reserve and help to document and protect this special part of Canberra.

For more information follow these links:

How to contribute

Our native species numbers

Pinnacle logo link site
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