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Explore the flora and fauna of the Pinnacle Nature Reserve by tapping/clicking on the images below.
The reserve is home to 1048 native species of plant and animal life from tiny insects and beetles less than a few millimeters long to our largest native inhabitant the Eastern Grey Kangaroo. Access the latest tally of native species sorted by groups, which includes 276 native plant species, 120 native bird species and 479 native insect species. Amongst these are 44 species that are rare or uncommon and 17 considered very rare, threatened or vulnerable.
more information on how these lists have been compiled and how to contribute to them.
All photos on the website have been taken on The Pinnacle Nature Reserve
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
) 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
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 apart from Plants and Birds, for which fotpin had extensive lists before it existed.
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 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 , take your camera along on your next visit to the reserve and help to document and protect this special part of Canberra.
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