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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Special Talk: Julie Quinn 'Abating the threat from feral animals: policy to practical action' | Sunday, 15 November 2015 - 1:00pm to Monday, 16 November 2015 - 12:45pm |
In Australia, feral animals have a huge impact on native species, and are a major cause of decline in many of our threatened species. For example, feral cats alone impact over 142 threatened species of mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs. Control of feral animals can be complex and challenging. |
| Growing Friends Spring Plant Sale | Saturday, 14 November 2015 - 8:30am to Sunday, 15 November 2015 - 10:45am |
The Growing Friends Spring Sale will be held on Saturday, 14 November 2015. Plants are propagated and tended by the Growing Friends from material sourced from the Gardens. All proceeds go to support the Gardens. Be early for the best selection - Details of some of the plants that will be available are here. A list of all the plants that will be on the sale is available. |
| Dr Roger Farrow ‘Travels through the world’s oldest desert and beyond’ | Thursday, 12 November 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Plant life encountered on a trek through Namibia and Botswana: an evolutionary perspective. |
| Dr Brett Summerell ‘Root rots, rusts and water moulds: Invasive diseases in botanic gardens’ | Thursday, 5 November 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Plant diseases are the bane of many botanic gardens causing death, destruction and difficulty in maintaining their collections. Conversely these same diseases may also provide an opportunity for botanic gardens to provide a major contribution in plant conservation as a sentinel for understanding the impact of these diseases on specific species. This talk will focus on some of the key plant diseases affecting Australian plants in botanic gardens (and home gardens) and the role botanic gardens play in combating them. |
| Plant Science Group Technical Talk: Nick Dos Remedios, Australia's Virtual Herbarium and the Atlas of Living Australia - getting the most out of these free online biodiversity resources. | Monday, 2 November 2015 - 10:30am |
Australia’s Virtual Herbarium has been around for over 10 years and is now maintained by Atlas of Living Australia on behalf of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Over that time it has been refined and new tools added. Come along and find out what these online tools can do for you. Venue: Theatrette at the ANBG. |
| Doug Laing ‘The mysterious baobab’ | Thursday, 29 October 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
This talk explores the ecology, distribution and lore of the baobab, from ancient times to the present. It takes us on a journey across the Indian Ocean from Africa, through Madagascar to Australia, and ponders on how and when these regal trees might have got from there to here and how they may have changed along the way. Doug Laing is a retired diplomat with a long fascination in natural history, ornithology and how things in nature are connected. He is an educator at the ANBG, a volunteer guide and a member of the Friends’ Thursday Talks Committee. |
| Dr David Shorthouse ‘STEP: a regional botanic gardens for the southern tablelands – from vision to reality’ | Thursday, 22 October 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
David will talk about Southern Tablelands Ecosystem Park (STEP) and its collaboration with the National Arboretum, ANBG, TAMS and John Stanhope and others to develop Forest 20 as a special place to visit. David Shorthouse is Vice-President of STEP and an active member since the foundation of STEP more than ten years ago. David is also a Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. David is a former member of the ACT’s Natural Resource Management Council and before retirement was manager of the ACT Government’s wildlife research and monitoring unit. |
| Schools Photographic Competition: Prize Ceremony | Saturday, 17 October 2015 - 12:00pm to Sunday, 18 October 2015 - 11:45am |
The prize presentation ceremony for the 2015 Schools Photographic Competition will be held at 12 noon on Saturday 17 October 2015 in the ANBG Theatrette. Earlier in the year, information packs about the competition were delivered to high schools and colleges for students. Entries for the competition closed on the 18 September 2015. Entries will be on display in the ANBG Visitor Centre from Wednesday 14 October to Sunday 8 November. |
| Darren Le Roux ‘Biodiversity-sensitive cities: fact or fiction’ | Thursday, 15 October 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
This talk will explore whether cities can find strategic ways to balance socio-economic interests with wildlife habitat, thereby creating a ‘shared space’ in our parks, roadside margins and backyards. Darren Le Roux is a PhD candidate in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. His research and work experience has had a strong focus on wildlife conservation and on monitoring biodiversity in human dominated landscapes.
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| Schools Photographic Competition: Exhibition | Wednesday, 14 October 2015 - 9:30am to Sunday, 8 November 2015 - 4:30pm |
Entries for the 2015 Schools Photographic Competition will be on display in the ANBG Visitor Centre from 9.30 am on Wednesday 14 October to 4.30 pm on Sunday 8 November. Earlier in the year, information packs about the competition were delivered to high schools and colleges for students. Entries for the competition closed on the 18 September 2015. The prize presentation ceremony for the 2015 competition (the 19th) was held on Saturday 17 October 2015 in the ANBG Theatrette. |
