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The Australian Seed Bank Partnership’s mission is to safeguard Australia’s plant populations and communities by developing a national network of conservation seed banks.
Collecting and storing seed in seed banks is one of the most powerful ways to combat the global decline of plant biodiversity. It offers an insurance policy against the further extinction of plant species.
Our initiatives focus on collecting and storing seed to conserve biodiversity and building and sharing knowledge to support restoration and conservation activities across Australia.
The Partnership unites the expertise of fourteen institutions, including universities, herbaria, botanic gardens, non-government organisations and state environmental agencies.
Revealing the secrets of seedsScience can unlock the mysteries of seeds, helping us to restore our landscapes and conserve our rich flora.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established by more than 90 Governments in Panama City on Saturday 21 April 2012, after several years of international negotiations.
The International Horticulture Congress will be held in Brisbane Australia in August 2014 and is expected to attract more than 2000 delegates.
Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) inaugural conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia, on 28-30 November 2012.
Twenty of WA’s most endangered plant species are being given a lifeline as part of a Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) project to store rare seeds for future use in species recovery actions. Seeds from threatened flora in danger of extinction due to habitat loss, weed invasion, disease and climate change are being collected from the Wheatbelt, Midwest, Swan and South Coast regions.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens has been supporting the work of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to restore the extremely rare Eucalyptus imlayensis on Mount Imlay in southern New South Wales. Eucalyptus imlayensis was discovered in 1977 and once dominated the summit of Mount Imlay, but it has declined by 10 per cent in the last decade.