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Contents<br />
OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C<br />
Business Plan specific outcomes<br />
(and associated Corporate Plan actions)<br />
Progress against specific outcomes and actions<br />
Specific Outcome 31<br />
Establish germination protocols for threatened<br />
Victorian species, so they may be used in ex situ<br />
and/or in situ translocation for the restoration and<br />
augmentation of threatened species populations.<br />
Approximately 210 species, mostly rare or<br />
threatened in Victoria, were newly added to the<br />
Victorian Conservation Seedbank (VSC) in <strong>2010</strong>–<br />
<strong>2011</strong>. About 50 per cent of these were tested for<br />
viability and germination requirements. This is the<br />
largest nu<strong>mb</strong>er of species added to the VCS since<br />
the project commenced in 2005, due in part to the<br />
excellent growing conditions throughout <strong>2010</strong>–11.<br />
A project funded by DSE, investigating germination<br />
requirements of me<strong>mb</strong>ers of the threatened Alpine<br />
Bogs Community, was completed. (See also<br />
Specific Outcome 18.)<br />
Specific Outcome 32<br />
Continue the management and monitoring of in situ<br />
threatened plant species at RBG Cranbourne.<br />
Staff continued vegetation monitoring surveys<br />
to locate and document plant taxa across the<br />
RBG Cranbourne site, including monitoring of<br />
biodiversity-based management actions such<br />
as ecologically sustainable fire and weed<br />
management. Surveys in the grassy woodland<br />
block mapped distribution of threatened taxa such<br />
as Thelionemia u<strong>mb</strong>ellatum and Austrostipa rudis<br />
ssp. australis. The annual survey of wetland areas<br />
for Thelymitra circumsepta continued, as did the<br />
development of plant databases to inform<br />
management of native vegetation.<br />
Specific Outcome 33<br />
In partnership with DSE and the Australasian<br />
Native Orchid Society, continue to implement<br />
the Caladenia robinsonii (Frankston Spider Orchid)<br />
translocation project at RBG Cranbourne.<br />
Staff from both RBG Cranbourne and RBG<br />
Melbourne continued the implementation of a<br />
successful Caladenia robinsonii (Frankston Spider<br />
Orchid) translocation project during the year. RBG<br />
Melbourne Nursery staff oversaw the propagation<br />
and growing of plants for the ongoing re-introduction<br />
into selected sites at RBG Cranbourne.<br />
A further 100 orchids were planted across two sites<br />
within RBG Cranbourne, bringing the total nu<strong>mb</strong>er<br />
of orchids planted to 167. Orchids planted during<br />
2008 and 2009 had successful pollination, with<br />
57 per cent producing seed capsules.<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Botanic</strong> <strong>Gardens</strong> Board Victoria <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2010</strong>–11 page 77