add your sightings to the map

The Community Web Mapping Portal (cwmp) has been designed by Melbourne company Spatial Vision.  The cwmp is based on google earth andthe CFA maps. The cwmp was designed by Spatial Vision in a partnership with The Norman Wettenhall Foundation with the aim to provide a platform for the community to record sightings of flora, fauna, revegetation sites, weed and pest information and other significant information in the area that they live.

The tool will enable people to connect to each other and share knowledge.  It also allows organisations to collect data about biodiversity on private land.

The Connecting Country project around Castlemaine was the first group to use the cwmp.  They started by collecting data about one particular species to be used in a funding application.  They collected over 50 records and this data was instrumental in their receipt of federal and state government funding. The cwmp will be used by Connecting Country for monitoring of certain species and is connected with their website and monitoring blog.  Other landscape restoration projects being supported by The Norman Wettenhall Foundation have also begun to use the cwmp to collect information about environmental assets in their catchment area.

If you want further information beth@nwf.org.au