NEW RESOURCE: Grey Box Grassy Woodlands & Derived Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia EPBC Act Policy Statement

This illustrated booklet is designed to assist land managers, owners and occupiers as well as environmental assessment officers, consultants and the general public to identify, assess and manage the Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia. This nationally threatened ecological community is listed under Australia's national environment law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

NEW RESOURCE: Progress toward environmental weed eradication in New Zealand

This paper summarizes a decade of plant eradication attempts by the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Data on 111 environmental weed eradication programs have been collected and summarized.

Read more here.

EVENT: BGANZ Conference 6-7 September, Sunshine Coast Qld

Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand Inc (BGANZ), the chief body representing the interests of botanic gardens in Australia and New Zealand, is holding its annual conference on the Sunshine Coast Qld 6 -7 Sepetmber 2012. Details here.

EVENT: Bushcare's Major Day Out, September 9th

On Sunday September 9th in Landcare Week, at over 100 city and country locations across Australia, everyone is invited to gather and do their bit for our remaining bushland.

Bushcare’s Major Day Out is a day specifically designed to give of us the opportunity to find out what is being done and what can be done in our own neighbourhood. It’s a fun day where anyone, young and old can work alongside and learn from experts and experienced volunteers. There are a range of activities depending on the location; walks, planting, weed removal, photography workshops as well as native plant identification and well celebrated morning teas.

Councils, Landcare, Bushcare groups and others are invited to post the details of their event on the website. Please send your details (location, organiser, time, details etc) to: info (at) bushcaresmajordayout (dot) org.

EVENT: 11th annual Awabakal wildflower walk, 9 September, Awabakal Nature Reserve, NSW

Join the National Parks Association (Hunter Branch) for a slow walk though the late spring wildflowers of the coastal heath of Awabakal Nature Reserve. For more information phone Maree 0410405815 or John 0400882897.

EVENT: Serrated Tussock Field Day 10 September 2012, Peel NSW

A Serrated Tussock field day will be held at "Brucedale" Peel NSW 10th September 2012 to explore new technologies for an old weed.

The informative and practical day is aimed at land managers, Weeds Officers and other weed professionals. 

Further details can be found here.

EVENT: Practical WET workshop on ‘Managing Constructed Wetlands and Water Plants’ 20 – 21 September Sydney NSW

On 20-21 September 2012 the Sydney Olympic Park Authority will be running a practical workshop on ‘Managing Constructed Wetlands and Water Plants’.

This workshop is suitable for anyone contemplating on construction and management of urban wetlands, especially those who are planning to manage development works around wetlands.

Participants will gain a hands-on learning experience and acquire pragmatic approaches in managing constructed wetlands and water plants, including weeds. Emphasis is placed on successful examples elsewhere and in Sydney Olympic Park.

For more information and to register call 02 9714 8888 or email bookingsvc@sopa.nsw.gov.au

EVENT: Society for Conservation Biology regional conference 21 - 23 September 2012

Society for Conservation Biology’s Oceania section are holding a regional conference on Conservation Biology in Oceania 21st – 23rd September 2012 in Darwin. The theme is 'People and Conservation in Land and Sea Country'.

Land and sea country are terms used by Indigenous people in northern Australia to refer to the environments they have managed for millennia. The philosophy underlying land and sea country management of passing on the knowledge and values inherited from ancestors to descendants is widely shared by conservation biologists across the globe. The meeting will showcase Indigenous conservation management while highlighting the tools and knowledge now available to all conservation practitioners in caring for land and sea country.

More information available from the conference website.

EVENT: Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference, Perth, 23-28 September 2012

The Australasian Systematic Botany Society will hold their 2012 conference in Perth 23-28th September 2012. The conference theme, Local knowledge, global delivery, follows from last year's landmark International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, where sweeping new changes surrounding the publication of new taxa were proposed.

More information available on the conference website.

EVENT: NCC NSW Annual Conference 27 - 28 October, Sydney NSW

The 2012 Nature Conservation Council of NSW Annual Conference will be held at the University of Sydney Law Foyer on 27-28 October 2012, including the presentation ceremony for the NSW Environment Awards.

The NCC Annual Conference is an opportunity for member groups to gather from across the state and formulate council policy. Further details here.

EVENT: Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia, Perth, 27-30 November 2012

The inaugural Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia Conference, 28-30 November 2012 in Perth, Western Australia is shaping up to being an exciting and inspiring meeting, with seven keynote speakers now announced.

The symposium sessions have been announced and include an ANPC symposium on the role of plant translocations in restoring and maintaining biodiversity: policy, planning and practice. The symposium will include presentations by practitioners from across Australasia exploring the current and future role of threatened flora translocation in restoring and maintaining biodiversity. Issues to be discussed include: the role of translocation as a climate change adaptation tool, the importance of information sharing and guidelines, and lessons learnt from past translocation projects.

For more information and to register visit the conference web page.

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