eDNA Results Victoria 2021

This inaugual program in the Great Australian Wildlife Search, this program ran in spring and early summer in 2021 as the Great Australian Platypus Search. Through this program, citizen scientists from schools and across the Victorian community sampled nearly 2,000 sites.

This extensive sampling survey provided the opportunity to generate landscape scale distribution data on a range of freshwater vertebrate species, using the eDNA metabarcoding method.

The results are summarised in the easy-to-read Biodiversity Findings Report.

Biodiversity Findings Report Victoria 2021

The Biodiversity Findings Report gives a great cross section of the results from the Great Australian Wildlife Search 2021.

The results uncovered threatened species in areas not previously identified, and showed the range of the platypus across the state.

View the snapshots here, or read the whole report from the button below.

The Great Australian Wildlife Search began in Victoria in Spring 2021 as the Great Australian Platypus Seach. The platypus was the flagship species of this program in recognition of growing concerns of its conservation status and lack of systematic data.

This scientific report was prepared specifically for the platypus in Victoria.

The 2021 season of the Great Australian Wildlife Search was made possible through the generosity of

  • The Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

  • Outback Academy Australia

  • PMF Foundation

  • Fouress Foundation

  • Environment Education Victoria

  • The Ross Trust

  • World Wide Fund for Nature

  • Capricorn Foundation

  • EnviroDNA