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  • Friends of Black Mountain working party

    We are looking forward to our next work party, inside ANBG close to the border between ANBG and Black Mountain Nature Reserve. Meet at the electricity sub-station, Frith Road, Acton. Bring water, and wear a hat, sunscreen, long-sleeved shirt, long pants, gloves, and stout shoes. We shall break for delicious morning tea at about 10:00am. […]

  • Professor David Lindenmayer AO – ‘A 25-year experiment to document the effects of large-scale plantation transformation on forest biodiversity’

    David, from the Fenner School of Environment and Society, will highlight the effects and challenges of plantations on forest biodiversity. Biography David is a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology, resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 42 years […]

  • Cameras and Café Walk

    The next Friends of ANBG Photographic Group Cameras and Café walk will be held on Sunday 13 April. We meet at the bus stop at 8.40 am, then follow our interests and instincts around the Gardens. Regroup for a refreshment and conversation at Pollen Cafe at around 10.30 am. At least one member of the Friends of […]

  • Plant Recognition Group – Macrophytes in streams and wetlands

    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 […]

  • Dr Peter Fullagar and Chris Davey – ‘Potential impacts of a rodent eradication program on the Lord Howe Island lowland terrestrial avifauna’

    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 Cooke – ‘Breaking family ties: The genetic rescue of Canberra’s Small Purple Pea population’

    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 collect seed from across the region, establish a seed production orchard, grow on established plants for translocation and design and implement a translocation plan incorporating […]