Become a citizen scientist!
Citizen science helps DPIRD collect valuable information from across Western Australia. By contributing your time, observations or samples, you can support research, pest surveillance and environmental monitoring that benefits our agriculture, fisheries and communities. Explore the projects below to find a way to get involved.
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Community members, businesses (particularly in industrial areas), and local governments are invited to Adopt-a-trap to monitor European wasps during the active wasp season, in the warmer months from around December through to the end of May.View more about Adopt-a-trap -
Observe - Learn - Protect! An annual community event for everyone to report, map and learn about interesting organisms and detect exotic pests early.View more about Biosecurity Blitz -
The Marine Fauna Sightings app is designed to allow fishers, citizen scientists and all water users to submit their sightings of marine fauna off the WA coast.View more about Marine Fauna Sightings -
The MyPestGuide® suite of apps create a collaborative network of people to identify, report, map and learn about pests and other organisms.View more about MyPestGuide -
Redmap (Range Extension Database and Mapping project) invites Australians to share sightings of marine species that are ‘uncommon’ to their local seas.View more about Redmap -
Recreational fishers can play a key part in fisheries science by donating the skeletons of fish they have caught.View more about Send Us Your Skeletons