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  • Arian McVeigh ‘ANU Kitchen Garden – a third space for students to connect with each other and nature and enjoy good food’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    The ANU Kitchen Garden Program provides opportunities for students to connect with each other and nature while they tend an organic community garden and share the produce they grow. Abstract The ANU Kitchen Garden Program creates opportunities for students to connect with each other and with nature through a focus on environmental sustainability and fresh, […]

  • Professor Tim Entwisle ‘Three Worlds Oak: The First Memoir of a Genus’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    A dying hybrid oak in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens sets off on a search for its parents, and in doing so reveals the extraordinary diversity of the genus Quercus. There is far more to oaks than the familiar English tree. Abstract In Tim Entwisle’s latest book, Three Worlds Oak, a dying hybrid oak in Melbourne’s […]

  • Dr Bruno Ferronato ‘Cultural turtles: experiences from Peru and Australia’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Bruno will tell us about his work in a turtle project with Ashaninka Indigenous people in Peru. He’ll also share what he’s learned about Australian turtles, turtle rock art motifs and turtle remains. Abstract Bruno will give a talk on his experiences working in a turtle project with Ashaninka Indigenous people in Peru. He will […]

  • Kushini Kalupahana ‘The mimic and the fool: A tiny bird’s use of vocal mimicry as an antipredation strategy’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Vocal mimicry occurs in nearly 20% of songbird species, yet the constraints on mimetic accuracy and its consequences for function remain poorly understood, particularly in alarm calling and predator deterrence contexts. Abstract Kushini’s research focuses on the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), a native Australian songbird that mimics the alarm calls of several other bird species […]

  • Kim Pullen ‘Our local ants: big in numbers and big in diversity’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Abstract Kim will talk about ants, and their habitats and relationships with other insects in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Black Mountain Reserve and surrounding areas. Biography Kim grew up in Canberra and inherited an interest in nature, and particularly insects, from his father who was a professional botanist (and a boyhood butterfly and beetle […]