The Habitat Restoration HUB is part of the online Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) BioCollect Ecoscience platform. The aim of the HUB is to provide an online, open-access and enduring space for documenting current and past habitat restoration work using standard criteria and in standard format. The information collected in this archive of habitat restoration sites will:
- provide program managers with a central record of the work they have conducted over time
- enable restoration work to be summarised and analysed over different spatial and temporal scales
- assist with coordination and planning of large-scale restoration programs
- assist with natural resource management, conservation and research.
Some funding bodies and programs, including the NSW Koala Strategy, will use the HUB as a project reporting tool.
Preliminary development of the HUB commenced in September 2020, where more than 70 experienced restoration practitioners and program coordinators identified standardised data capture for restoration work as a priority action. Early development was funded by an American National Science Foundation Grant (CNH-L: Dynamics of Zoonotic Systems: Human-Bat-Pathogen Interactions) and ongoing work is funded jointly by that grant, the NSW Koala Strategy, a federal Multiregional Bushfire Recovery Grant and the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
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