Bill Waterhouse – ‘Wombat rescue at Major’s Creek’
Bill and his wife rescue injured wombats, especially pouch pinkies, in facilities that they developed at Major’s Creek especially for growing and rewilding them.
Kristy Gould ‘Conserving Canberra: Healing country through restoration’
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Thursday Talks
Events
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ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Tasha James – ‘Endemics on the Edge: The Challenges of Conserving Mt Imlay Species’ (Don Beer Memorial Talk)
ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaTasha, a PhD student at University of Canberra and a holder of a Friends ANBG scholarship, is asking will Hibbertia circinata, Boronia imlayensis, and Eucalyptus imlayensis provide different insights into threatened species conservation on Mt Imlay and more broadly for threatened-species conservation?
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Shelley Rowntree – ‘Unpicking the complexity of Chrysocephalum (Gnaphalieae, Asteraceae)’
ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaShelley, PhD candidate at the UNE and a holder of a Friends ANBG scholarship, will discuss the species limits and the dominant processes affecting the breeding and conservation of the Chrysocephalum genus.
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Dr Gemma Hoyle and Tom North – ‘National Seed Bank 2.0: Evolution of seed collection, banking and research for world class conservation’
ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaTom and Gemma, from the National Seed Bank here, will provide a ‘behind the scenes’ look at why the upgrade was necessary and how the new facility has been designed to ensure improved plant germplasm conservation and research.
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Jay Nicholson – ‘Why do some plants die while others survive? Exploring the impacts of extreme drought in the Red Centre’
ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaJay, a PhD candidate at ANU and has a Friends ANBG scholarship, works with Anangu, the Traditional Owners at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, to work out why certain culturally important species are dying, and what the future might be for Australia’s arid landscapes.
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Josh Coates – ‘Australian alpine pollinators in a changing world’
ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaJosh, a PhD Student at the ANU, will present his research in pollination ecology in Kosciuszko National Park, from the community level down to a few case studies of charismatic species such as the Bogong moth.