International GIS day! Today is International GIS Day! GIS (Geographic Information System) is a scientific framework for gathering, analysing, and visualising geographic data to help us make better decisions. Today is a day to celebrate the science of GIS and a chance to show what we can do. We gained our first in-house GIS Officer is 2018 and since then our spatial capability, database and skillset has grown larger every year. How do we use GIS?We…

Australian Pollinator Week Australian Pollinator Week is a time when communities, businesses and organisations can come together to raise awareness of the importance of our Australian pollinators during spring. Pollinators are crucial for not only natural ecosystems, but also for our food production. Pollinators don’t just mean bees by the way - other important Australian pollinators include flies, hoverflies, wasps, butterflies, moths, thrips, beetles, ants and even bats! But pollinator populations across the globe are…