Projects
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Projects
Threatened Plant Living Collection Plan City of Melbourne Threatened Plant Living Collection Plan — CoM Open Data Portal
Renewals for Nature Project - Renewals for Nature: City of Melbourne garden bed inventory 2024 - Dataset - Victorian Government Data Directory
Raising Rarity RBGV (PDF) Raising Rarity: Creating meaningful and sustainable conservation outcomes through community-based outreach.
Living Collections Development: Mallacoota Botanic Gardens; Sale Botanic Gardens; WAMA Grampians/Gariwerd Botanic Gardens – Wama Foundation
Floral Emblem Expert Reference Group City of Melbourne Floral Emblem for the City of Melbourne | Participate Melbourne
Avon River Peppermint - Population Genomics research and seedbank collection - community workshops, and presentations to field Naturalists Community key to protecting endangered Avon peppermint gum - ABC News
Multiple single species conservation projects - e.g. Commersonia dasyphylla, Grevillea gariwerdensis, Grevillea micrantha, Xerochrysum palustre
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - Nature Fund | Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - Bushfire Recovery
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Media
8 February, Chloe Foster joined by Jane Tonkin, Russell Larke and Peter May | 3CR Community Radio
Ep.132 Cranbourne Botanic Gard…–Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology – Apple Podcasts
9 March, Emma Herd joined by Russell Larke, Fermi de Sousa and Craig Wilson | 3CR Community Radio
Community key to protecting endangered Avon peppermint gum - ABC News
Melbourne Council and Botanic Gardens work to save rare species - video Dailymotion
Webinar Walk on the Wild Side: https://youtu.be/ZSspjS1lMXU
Good things come in trees | Science Queeries
(PDF) Raising Rarity: Creating meaningful and sustainable conservation outcomes through community-based outreach.
Community key to protecting endangered Avon peppermint gum - ABC News
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.997193687767004
Wildflower meadows and rare blooms boost biodiversity in Melbourne | City of Melbourne
The BOTANIC GARDENer: Summer 2024 – Issue 63 by Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand - Issuu
Raising Rarity: A community approach to plant conservation - Hort Journal Australia
Naturalistic planting takes centre stage - Hort Journal Australia
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Engagement
BGCI Singapore Botanic Gardens Congress 2020 & 2024 Global Botanic Garden Congress | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Ecological Society of Australia 2024 Conference - ‘Avon Calling’ Applied conservation genomics for management of the critically endangered Avon Peppermint - Eucalyptus ornans (Rule and Molynuex) – Myrtaceae
Opened the Australian Plant Society conference of 2024 - 1 ANPSA 2024_SEPT 30_RAISING RARITY_FINAL megan hirst.pdf - Google Drive
Wimmera CMA | 26th Wimmera Biodiversity Seminar
Botanic Gardens Webinar Series 2024. Webinar 1, Science Saving Species.
La Trobe Valley Field Naturalists - Presentation and Avon River Tour Latrobe+Valley+Naturalist+Mar-Apr+2025.pdf
Field Naturalists of Victoria Botany Group fnn_355.pdf
Alpine Garden Society Victorian Group: The Collectors Garden Conference
Australasian Botanic Guides Conference - Raising Rarity - YouTube
Westgate Biodiversity AGM - Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare
Conservation Workshop 2025 Sale Botanic Gardens
Rare Plant Workshop 2026 City of Melbourne / Citywide / Serco