08 June 2012

ANPC NATIONAL CONFERENCE: Registration open & inviting abstracts for presentations, posters & workshops

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Registration has opened for ANPC’s 9th National Conference to be held 29 October – 2 November 2012 in Canberra.  The overall confere...

ANPC seeking a Volunteer Social Media Coordinator

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Are you a regular social media user? ANPC is seeking a Volunteer Social Media Coordinator to manage Facebook and Twitter accounts for the...

ANPC: Monitoring and community involvement explored in the latest edition of APC

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ANPC members will have received issue 20 (4) of Australasian Plant Conservation by now. The theme of the latest issue is monitoring and...

ANPC: Exploring images from the past 21 years

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As part of our 21st anniversary celebrations, the ANPC is collating images from the past 21 years. Volunteer Mark Grahame has been uploadin...

NEWS: Myrtle Rust reaches Wet Tropics

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The introduced plant disease Myrtle Rust has now naturalised in a number of areas in North Queensland. In the world heritage-listed Wet Tro...

NEWS: Assessing the conservation value of ex situ collections

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A new collaborative project between BGCI and the Botanical Garden of Ghent University, Belgium is aiming to develop a protocol for the gene...

NEWS: Four leading botanical gardens to create first online world flora catalogue

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The World Flora Online project was recently launched. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, The New York Bot...

NEWS: Fungi Festival 2012

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Contributed by Tom May , Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Fungi Festival 2012 , recently held in Hobart, Tasmania, combined a two-day Sym...

INVITATION TO COMMENT: horse riding in NSW national parks & reserves

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The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage has released the Draft strategic directions for horse riding in NSW national parks and reserves,...

INVITATION TO COMMENT: Review of the NSW BioBanking Scheme

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On 10 May 2012 the NSW Minister for the Environment, Robyn Parker MP, announced the start of the statutory review of the BioBanking Scheme....

VIC FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: 2 Million Trees

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The 2 Million Trees Project will plant 1.5 million trees in parklands and other public open space in metropolitan Melbourne and half a mill...

EVENT SA: Orchids of the Yorke Peninsula region, 24 June 2012

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Members of the Native Orchid Society of South Australia will give a presentation on the diverse range of orchids that occur in the Yorke Pe...