Summit Ramble
The Summit Walk, a joint initiative between the ACT Government, the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) and Telstra, was officially opened in 2000. Join our ANBG Guides, and FoBM guide Michael Doherty, a […]
Emeritus Professor Patrick De Deckker ‘On the extraordinary expedition of Dumont d’Urville that discovered Antarctica in 1840’
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 organisms, and how new laboratories and technologies will contribute to new ways to biodiversity research. Abstract CSIRO is home to national collections made up of […]