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Environmental and Wellness Free Apps - Descriptions

Below are descriptions of free Apps that the whole family can enjoy together or individually to experience and understand nature in your local area. Also included are Apps for sustainable living and well-being. Coastal Life of SE Queensland: This App is designed to assist you in identifying over 540 species of plants and animals from a variety of coastal communities and habitats across South East Queensland. User friendly for students, fieldworkers and the interested naturalist or beach walker, this App makes it so easy to explore the strange and beautiful life forms that inhabit this diverse length of our coast. This App was created by Griffith University in collaboration with the Queensland Museum Network with support from the Queensland Government. GroNATIVE: This App promotes the use of native plant species in gardens by showing people how these natives can easily replace garden plants that often become weeds. It gives users the opportunity to select distinct gardening styles and looks and helps pair these with native planting palettes. Through encouraging locals to grow natives, the App contributes to reducing the flow of exotic and pest plant species into neighbouring wild ecosystems while simultaneously helping to retain local biodiversity. GroNATIVE is a joint initiative between the Queensland Government, Natura Pacific and Griffith University. Queensland Museum Network Field Guide to Queensland Fauna: This App provides detailed descriptions of Queensland animal species, their conservation status and distribution. With a register of over 560 species, this App helps you to identify and learn about birds, frogs, fishes, lizards, snakes, mammals, turtles and freshwater, marine and terrestrial invertebrates. This App was created by the Queensland Museum Network in collaboration with Museum Victoria and all other Australian Museums. FrogID: FrogID was developed by the Australian Museum in partnership with IBM and is the first national citizen science frog identification initiative in Australia. You can use the App to create a profile, record frog calls and match your recorded calls to the frog calls in the App. You can upload your records to the Australian Museum frog experts for species verification. Use of this App contributes citizen science data to help gain more understanding about species distribution and changes in habitats overtime. BirdLife Australia – Aussie Backyard Bird Count: Use this App to take part in Australia’s first nationwide bird survey. Outside of the survey’s duration, the App can be used as a bird field guide. Get to know your local birds and help contribute to a citizen science initiative investigating the wellbeing of Australia’s native bird species.

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Aust. Birds: This App offers a field guide to Australian birds and includes photos, descriptions and distribution maps. A growing number of descriptions include bird calls and other ecological information like diet and habitat preferences. eBird: This App contains a global database of bird species and is created by Cornell University. It allows you to keep a record of all your bird sightings for any location locally, nationally or internationally and contributes your data along with that of hundreds of thousands of other “twitchers” to contribute to global scientific research, education and conservation efforts. iNaturalist: iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you and connects you with a community of over 400 000 scientists and naturalists around the world. Through the App, you can reach out to other users for assistance and confirmation with identifications and your data to contribute to a global citizen science project. You can also follow more specialised, localised projects for a particular place or species. This App was developed by the California Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the National Geographic Society. Seek by iNaturalist: Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of birds, amphibians, plants and fungi and participate in monthly observation challenges with Our Planet on Netflix. Field guide to Pest Animals of Australia: Every year, pest animals cost the Australian economy at least $1 billion a year due to economic, environmental and social impacts. This App contains information about pest animal species including photos, distribution maps, animal calls and control information and resources. Weeds of SE Qld and Northern NSW: This App gives you the power to identify over 700 weed species found in South East Queensland and North East New South Wales. A handy tool for gardening, this App will soon also allow you to report invasive weeds to your local council as a means of helping to combat the threats weeds place on local biodiversity. SkyView Lite: SkyView Lite is the free version of the SKyView App. It brings stargazing to everyone. Simply point your phone or tablet at the sky to identify stars, constellations, satellites and more! The App uses your camera to precisely spot and identify celestial objects in the sky, day or night, using augmented reality.

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Sustainable Seafood Guide - GoodFish: Love your seafood? This App puts power into your pocket so you’re ready to make a sustainable choice every time you head out for some fish and chips. The only App of its kind in Australia, GoodFish shows you sustainability information for over 90 types of seafood and also features Greenpeace’s Canned Tuna Guide. The App is very easy to use, operating with a traffic light style Approach – green is the ‘better choice’, amber means ‘eat less’ and red means ‘say no’. Smiling Mind: This is a free mindfulness meditation App developed by psychologists and educators. With programs tailored for children from 7 years of age up to adults, including mindfulness in the classroom (whether that be at school or at home), the workplace and sleep programs, there’s something for everyone in this App. The programs are designed to assist people in dealing with pressure, stress and the challenges of daily life. Insight Timer: Insight Timer is a meditation App with lots of music tracks, soundscapes, guided meditations and talks by the world’s top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from facilities like Stanford, Harvard and the University of Oxford. With over 80 new free guided meditations are added each day, this App offers programs covering quality sleep, dealing with anxiety and reducing stress, recovery from medical or addictive issues, self-love and compassion, focus and concentration, leadership, relationships and much more.