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| Dr Ralph Ogden ‘ACT Healthy Waterways – an Update’ | Thursday, 28 March 2019 - 12:30pm |
Ralph is the new Program Manager, ACT Healthy Waterways Project, a joint initiative of the ACT and the Australian governments to improve the quality of water entering our lakes and waterways. It includes the construction of infrastructure – like wetlands, ponds and rain gardens, and involves research trials. |
| Guided walks during Eucalypt Week | Saturday, 23 March 2019 - 11:00am to Monday, 1 April 2019 - 11:45am |
Eucalypts are the sight and smell of the Australian Bush and our Volunteer Guides are celebrating this iconic species which has its own day: National Eucalypt Day on Saturday 23 March. Find out some amazing facts about these trees which come in all shapes and sizes and dominate our landscape from alpine regions to the outback and edges of rainforest on a one hour ramble through the ANBG. The regular guided walks at 11am from Saturday 23 March until Sunday 31 March will focus on eucalypts. Please meet at the Visitor Information Centre about ten minutes before the start |
| Photographic Group Twilight Walk | Thursday, 21 March 2019 - 6:00pm to 7:15pm |
For the information of Photographic Group members Our 1st event for March is on Thursday the 21st - A twilight walk/photography in the gardens. Gates will open for PG members at 6 to 615pm and gates close 7-7.15pm. Please identify yourself at the gate.
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| Emeritus Professor Mike Crisp ‘Callitris: an Evolutionary Chronicle of Extinction, Survival and Re-diversification ' | Thursday, 21 March 2019 - 12:30pm |
Mike, from the ANU, will discuss how the cypress family of conifers has been an important model for studying the way organisms came to be distributed, where they are found today, and how ancient changes in the earth's environment influenced their distribution |
| Botanic Art Groups - 12th Annual Exhibition | Saturday, 16 March 2019 - 9:30am to Sunday, 14 April 2019 - 4:30pm |
'More Than Just a Pretty Plant' - native plant use then and now The Friends of the ANBG's Botanic Art Groups will hold their 12th annual exhibition and sale, with the theme 'more than just a pretty plant'. The works on show will feature plants with traditional and modern uses as sources of food, medicine, and materials for making practical objects and artworks. There is a special Friends’ preview on the afternoon of Friday 15th March. |
| Dr Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn 'Phylogenetic Diversity and 'hot spots' for Conservation’ | Thursday, 14 March 2019 - 12:30pm |
Alexander, is from the CSIRO, and will explain how phylogenetic diversity works and its logic, and how it can identify areas of conservation priority and patterns of biogeographic interest. |
| Luminous Botanicus IV: shade of trees | Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 7:30pm to Sunday, 10 March 2019 - 10:45pm |
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| Bush tucker walk - Saturday afternoon | Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 2:00pm to Sunday, 10 March 2019 - 2:45pm |
The regular guided walk this afternoon (9th March) will feature bush tucker plants. |
| Bush tucker walk - Saturday morning | Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 11:00am to Sunday, 10 March 2019 - 11:45am |
The regular guided walk this morning (9th March) will feature bush tucker plants. |
| Luminous Botanicus IV: shade of trees | Friday, 8 March 2019 - 7:30pm to Saturday, 9 March 2019 - 10:45pm |
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