National Film and Sound Archives – Special Free Event
Open daily until 8 September 2024 at National Film and Sound Archive, Acton. Admission is free. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is staging a special event titled […]
The Friends’ 38th Annual General Meeting
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Wattle We Call It? guided walks
Wattles are acacias, or are they? The first tree called a wattle in Australia is not an acacia at all. The acacias of Africa are no longer acacias. Many of the wattles have leaves that are not leaves. On this free guided walk, hear about some of these paradoxes while visiting a variety of wattles […]
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Dr Marita Bradshaw ‘The National Rock Garden – new location, new rocks and new stories to tell’
Marita, steering committee member with the National Rock Garden, will present an update on the expanded rock garden, the stories it tells of the deep history of Australia and the recent move of the big rocks into Forest 13 at the National Arboretum Canberra. Abstract The National Rock Garden (nationalrockgarden.com.au ) is gathering a collection […]
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Black Mountain Weeding Work Party
We thank our work party for removing more than 2,215 mostly young woody weeds at our August work party in the grassland and woodland area, and Rosemary for the thousands of pink tags that made it easier to find the weeds. Details of the next weeding work party (including the booking link) are: Date: Saturday, 7 September […]
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Plant Science Talk
The next Plant Science talk will be on Monday 9th September, 10.30am in the Theatrette. Presenter: Tasha James (PhD student, Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Canberra) Title: Endemics on the Edge - a case study at Mt. Imlay, NSW. Synopsis: This talk summarises the work Tasha will be undertaking in her PhD to […]
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Anthony Whalen ‘CSIRO has a new building – what will this mean for Australia’s national biodiversity collections?’
Anthony, Director of the National Research Collections Australia CSIRO, will outline the careful planning for CSIRO and ANBG’s precious national collections of preserved plants, vertebrate and invertebrate animals and other […]