The Friends of the ANBG's Botanic Art Group will hold its 18th annual exhibition and sale at the Visitor Centre Gallery, with the theme 'Rainforest'. The exhibition will feature Australian native plants that grow in rainforest zones from tropical, subtropical, coastal, dry or temperate. Our rainforests extend from the far north to Tasmania. Most of […]
The next Plant Recognition Group workshop will be on macrophytes in streams and wetlands. The workshop will be led by Dr Jane Roberts, a retired vegetation ecologist, who has an ecological consultant to government in vegetation and water management primarily on lowland rivers in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Dr Roberts will provide an overview and show live material, species selected being dependent […]
Peter and Chris, from Canberra Birds, will describe the extent to which rodent a control program caused a detectable change in abundance of birds on Lord howe Island. They matched the avian response to rodent removal in terms of the known biology of the species, particularly the Lord Howe Island Woodhen. In response to a […]
Emma will discuss work done over the last nine years by the National Seed Bank, ANBG nursery, ACT Office of Nature Conservation and the Parks and Conservation Service teams to […]
Join plant ecologist Michael Doherty for a walk and little-known stories about vegetation patterns, fire ecology and fire history on Black Mountain. We will also discuss fire and vegetation management […]
Rod, a retired CSIRO scientist and currently the Treasurer of Friends ANBG, will talk about temperature and reproduction of plants, including Australian natives. Rod ‘s research with the CSIRO focused […]