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  • Sally Barnes ‘I am a sucker for getting people out into nature’

    Sally’s career has centred on managed public places for public value from national parks in NSW, Northern Territory and Jervis Bay, to the Australian National Botanic Gardens and now as Chief Executive of the National Capital Authority.  Sally is leaving her current role at the end of February 2024 so this talk will provide a […]

  • Black Mountain Weeding Work Party

    We plan to remove woody weeds that have been thriving along the Powerline road in Black Mountain Nature Reserve. Meet: Belconnen Way entry to Black Mountain Nature Reserve.   Look for banners. Bring:  more of your friends if you wish, as everyone is welcome.   Wear:  hat, sunscreen, long-sleeved shirt, long pants, gloves, stout shoes. We shall […]

  • Bradley Desmond ‘The Rare Bloom Project: A partnership approach to conserving Australian wildflowers’

    Abstract With over 1,300 Australian species nationally listed as threatened, the Australian Seed Bank Partnership are taking action to safeguard our native flora. In 2021, the Partnership embarked on a three-year collaboration with WWF-Australia and Botanica by Air Wick to deliver The Rare Bloom Project. This project supports a national program of conservation actions including […]

  • Dr Peter Caley ‘On estimating waterbird abundance and trend across eastern Australia’

    Abstract Monitoring waterbird populations in Australia is challenging for reasons of counting logistics, and because population aggregation and dispersion can shift rapidly in response to large spatio-temporal variations in resource availability. In this talk I will present a modelling approach that attempts to address some of these challenges on the way to making sound inference […]

  • Dr Linda Broome ‘Emergency feeding of Mountain Pygmy-possums after the Black Summer fires’

    Abstract On January 4, 2020 the catastrophic Dunn’s Road fire exploded into a severe fire storm centred on the habitat of the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum in northern Kosciuszko National Park, near Cabramurra. One third of the habitat of the possum in NSW was severely burnt, with all vegetation cover removed. While it was hoped […]

  • Distinguished Professor Sue O’Connor ‘Art in the Bark: The Indigenous carved boab trees of northwest Australia’

    Abstract The Australian boab (Adansonia gregorii) is an iconic tree which is related to the baobabs of Africa and Madagascar.  Found only in a restricted area of northwest Australia, boab trees are instantly recognisable by their massive bottle-shaped trunks. Boabs are an important economic species for Indigenous Australians with the pith, seeds and young roots […]