Importing Threatned Plant and Animal Species



Open the Bionet Atlas

Enter the search parameters

Click on Download Records, for a sanity check you have checked the right items you can click the View Map.

Then you need to unzip the file, there should be a TAB delimited TXT file

In QGIS, click the Add Delimited Text Layer Ctrl + Shift + T button

Browse for the file, then:

Browse for file

Layer name

Tab-delimited

Header lines to discard

Coordinates

Change to EPSG:3857

Troubleshooting

If the items don't appear on the map, edit the layer properties and change the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) to EPSG:4939 - GDA94.