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Wild Plants of Victoria and Wild Animals of Victoria are easy-to-use desktop or web-based guides to the plants and animals of Victoria.  They contain descriptions, photographs, identification aids and distribution data for virtually all species of vascular plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that live in the wild in this state.  The desktop versions come on, and run from, a USB Flash Drive so they are completely portable and can be installed in less than a minute on any modern Windows-based computer (XP, Vista and 7).  The web-based versions can be accessed from any web-linked computer and have been tested on the five major browsers. 

There are three basic functions for Wild Plants and Animals for which the software and database structures are optimised.

Looking up a plant or animal species  
The packages show, at a glance, the names, classification and conservation status of all 5000 vascular plant species or 780 mammal, bird, reptile and frog species recorded for Victoria.  Each species has a plain English description and most are represented by one or more colour photographs.  You can find the names by typing in a scientific name or a common name, you can even enter an old out of date name and there is a good chance the correct species will be found.  [More]

Find the distribution of any species
Once you have found the species you are looking for you may, with a single mouse-click, plot its distribution - as a series of grids - on any one of a range of maps of Victoria.  The themes for these maps include parks and public land, topography, climate, bioregions etc.  Each of the maps can be printed or exported as high-quality vector images for desktop publication and sharing with colleagues. [More]

Finding all plant or animal species for any area 
You may load any of the maps and, using simple point-and-click methods, determine an area on that map to search (using one or more of the data-holding grids).  Clicking a search button will find all the species recorded for that area and the date of the most recent record.  The resulting list can then be printed, exported or queried further.   [More]