Capacity building in the translocation of Victoria’s threatened native plants
Brian Bainbridge and Michael Longmore examining the wild and translocated population of Microseris scapigera (Murnong) with videographer Michael Lawrence-Taylor. Image by Chantelle Doyle.
The aims of the ‘Plants Going Places’ project, undertaken over 2021 and 2022, were to help build capacity for successful plant translocations in Victoria (especially critical to post-fire recovery), increase awareness of threatened plants, help tackle ‘plant blindness’ and give voice to those people who work in this underappreciated field. This was achieved through the production of videos and podcasts on plant translocation projects and a two-day online Victorian Translocation Symposium to help educate and inform environmental scientists, practitioners and the wider public in the science and practicalities of threatened plant translocation, for the benefit of Victoria’s threatened plant species.
Online Symposium held 21 and 28 July 2022
The Victorian Translocation Symposium held over two days via Zoom (due to COVID restrictions) included presentations from experts and experienced practitioners in plant translocations and was based on the ANPC’s Guidelines for the Translocation of Threatened Plants in Australia. The event was facilitated by Project Manager Chantelle Doyle and was free to attend thanks to the Ross Trust.
Download the full program here.
The recordings from the Victorian Translocation Symposium are available on our YouTube channel here.
Videos and Podcasts
As part of the ‘Plants Going Places’ project, Chantelle and videographer Michael Lawrence-Taylor produced three videos and three podcasts on:
1/ the Spiny Rice Flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens) in the Brimbank City Council area,
2/ Murnong yam daisy (Microseris scapigera) at Merri Creek in Melbourne, and
3/ the Metallic Sun-orchid (Thelymitra epipactoides) and Coloured Spider-orchid (Caladenia colorata) in Victoria.
Watch and listen below!
Digging (up) the Spiny Rice-flower Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens
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Podcast:
Murnong; returning Yam Daisy to Melbournes’ Merri Creek
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A very orchid story; growing and restoring wild populations
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Be sure to visit the Plant Heroes website for more great videos and podcasts produced by Chantelle and Michael. They cover stories on the following species:
- Neilsen Park She-oak (Allocasaurina portuensis)
- Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
- Tumut Grevillea (Grevillea wilkinsonii)
- Julian’s Hibbertia (Hibbertia spanantha)
This Project was supported by a grant from The Ross Trust.
“The Ross Trust is a perpetual charitable trust with a vision to create positive social and environmental change so Victorians can thrive. The Trust was established in 1970 in Victoria by the will of the late Roy Everard Ross.”