MEGAfauna: a walk through time!
Alerting all explorers! We need your help to discover our long-lost creatures at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Travel back in time with us for a family-friendly outdoor discovery trail […]
The Friends’ 38th Annual General Meeting
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Dr Liz Reed ‘Australia’s fossil caves: underground archives of past biodiversity’
Liz, from the University of Adelaide, will talk about refining the age and palaeoenvironmental context of key deposits from caves in the Naracoorte area of the Limestone Coast region of […]
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Black Mountain bird observation walk
Come and join a small group of Friends with varying levels of bird identification expertise to observe some of the bird life on Black Mountain. Will we see some of […]
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Dr Peter Caley ‘Identifying drivers of decline of the bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) – a call out to Caughley’
Dr Peter Caley, of CSIRO, will explore which of the numerous putative drivers are consistent with the observations of the decline of the famous Bogong moth. Abstract Bogong moth populations are in decline. Following a big decrease in numbers after European colonisation expanded across their breeding range, a subsequent decline from about 1980 has been […]
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Plants Through Time
Come and see some examples of the earliest types of plants and trace the development of plants on this free guided walk. See the kinds of plants that were around at the same time as the dinosaurs and how much they had changed by the time the megafauna arrived. These one-hour walks are at 11:00 […]
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Dr Nina McLean and Nathan Kay ‘Fire Recovery in Namadgi National Park’
Nina and Nathan, from ACT Government Parks and Conservation, will talk about the recovery plan and monitoring of two endangered Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens so that they are viable and well-represented community in their natural geographic range. Abstract Nina McLean is the Monitoring and Evaluation officer with the Office of Nature Conservation (formerly Conservation […]