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| Event title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Penny Olsen ‘The Norfolk Island Morepork: Rebuilding a Population from the Last Survivor’ | Thursday, 16 July 2020 - 12:30pm |
Penny, is an Honorary Professor at the School of Environment and Society, ANU. In 1986 she organised a group to visit Norfolk Island and conduct a search for the Morepork. The group discovered that only one individual remained. What do you do with one owl? A recovery program began and today a small population persists. |
| Associate Professor Cris Brack ‘The Value and Future of Canberra’s Urban Forest: Trees’ | Thursday, 23 July 2020 - 12:30pm |
Cris, from the School of Environment and Society, ANU, will talk on the urban forest that has been part of the fundamental fabric of Canberra since the original award-winning designs of Walter and Marion Griffin. The value of these urban forests is growing even faster than the numbers of trees planted, but so too is the difficulty of managing them. |
| Jason Cummings ‘Reconnecting People and Nature to Inspire Conservation Action’ | Thursday, 30 July 2020 - 12:30pm |
Jason, has worked as a CEO in conservation organisations in Canberra, and recently completed a Churchill Fellowship in the United Kingdom (UK). In the UK he explored leading practices in nature interpretation and visitor facilities and will share those experiences and how they are influencing projects underway in Canberra to enhance the way we engage our communities locally to inspire conservation action. |
| Dr Sophie Lewis ‘Climate Change and Australia’s Extreme Events’ | Thursday, 6 August 2020 - 12:30pm |
Sophie, ACT Scientist of the Year 2019, and from the University of NSW, Canberra, will discuss how in recent years, Australia has experienced unprecedented heat, including heatwaves and record-breaking hot days, months, seasons and years. She will discuss human influences on past, present and future extreme climate events in Australia. Are our recent extremes a sign of a new normal and how bad could it get? |
| Jo Harding and Dr Kate Grarock ‘Bush Blitz – 10 Years Old and Going Strong!’ | Thursday, 13 August 2020 - 12:30pm |
Both Jo and Kate from Bush Blitz, will discuss how since 2010 Bush Blitz has been discovering new species – over 1,700 new species across 41 expeditions, making it the largest program of its type in the world. Bush Blitz is also engaged with land managers, traditional owners, teachers and students. Find out about where Bush Blitz has been and where it is going over the next few years! |
| Dr Leo Joseph ‘Australian Bird Names are all Sorted Out. Yes? No? Maybe?’ | Thursday, 20 August 2020 - 12:30pm |
Leo, Director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO, will focus on birds from northern Australia generally and north Queensland specifically to show where knowledge of the names we need to apply to birds still needs a lot more work. Examples will come from lorikeets, friarbirds, orioles, quail-thrush, whipbirds, black-cockatoos, pigeons and maybe a few more! |
| Dr Liz Truswell ‘One Small Tract of Bushland in Southwest WA and the Fight For its Preservation’ | Thursday, 27 August 2020 - 12:30pm |
Liz, a geoscientist and a visiting fellow at the ANU, will talk on a small section of the flora that she saw in the late spring and early summers of 2018 and 2019 in the small community of Augusta. She will also describe the community's ongoing attempts to preserve it. This is a part of Southwest WA’s biodiversity hotspot which has an exceptional concentration of endemic species, facing ongoing loss of habitat. |
| Growing Friends 2020 Spring Native Plant Sale | Saturday, 14 November 2020 - 8:30am to 11:00am |
The Growing Friends Spring Sale will be held on Saturday, 14th November 2020 Plants are propagated and tended by the Growing Friends from material sourced from the Gardens. All proceeds go to support the Gardens. Be early for the best selection. A Plant List will be available on this website closer to the sale date. When: Saturday, 14th November 2020 |
| ‘Reflections’ 2020 Photographic Group Exhibition and Competition | Thursday, 19 November 2020 (All day) to Sunday, 6 December 2020 (All day) |
To commemorate the anniversary events in 2020, the Friends of the ANBG Photographic Group will organise a photographic competition as part of the Group’s annual photographic exhibition in November 2020. The Photographic Group encourages all Friends’ members to submit their best photographs of native plants and wildlife in the Gardens. The competition is open to all members of the Friends, and is not restricted to Photographic Group members. Entry is free. |
