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Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C Business Plan specific outcomes (and associated Corporate Plan actions) Progress against specific outcomes and actions Specific Outcome 34 Display wild-collected Victorian plant species at RBG Melbourne to benefit conservation and community awareness and to conserve water resources by reducing irrigation through use of indigenous species. Additional wild-collected Victorian plant species have been introduced into the landscape including additional planting into the Rare and Threatened Species Beds, Australian Forest Walk, Herbarium Bed and Conifer Border. Specific Outcome 35 Advance the integrated conservation of plant biodiversity, with an emphasis on management and eradication of, and education about, environmental weeds. Specific Outcome 36 Continue implementation of the RBG Cranbourne remnant vegetation management program, including woody and herbaceous weed management, and prescribed burns covering six hectares annually. Specific Outcome 37 Implement year four of the Grassy Woodland grassy weed control program. Through collaboration with colleagues in the USA, Switzerland, Chile, and the Canary Islands, a global analysis of invasive species of mountains has been identified and several papers published by the group MIREN (Mountain Invasions Research Network). This work has the potential to identify species likely to become problematic should they establish in Australian montane and alpine vegetation, allowing for sensible targeting of eradication effort. The grassy weed control program continued to be a focus (see Specific Outcome 37 below), as did the control of disturbance-loving taxa such as Inkweed, thistles and Nightshade within sites of recent prescribed burns. Control of highly invasive species site-wide included Blackberry, Sallow Wattle, Sweet Pittosporum, Sweet Vernal Grass and Kikuyu. Three prescribed burn sites were prepared and burn plans completed and approved. Two prescribed burns were conducted, totalling 17 hectares. These burns were located to the south-west of RBG Cranbourne’s entrance and north-east of the Australian Garden Stage 2. An integrated control program of grassy weeds, in particular Sweet Vernal Grass, within the highly significant and diverse Grassy Woodland Ecological Vegetation Class continued to be a management focus. page 78
Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C Business Plan specific outcomes (and associated Corporate Plan actions) Progress against specific outcomes and actions Specific Outcome 38 Work closely with botanic gardens and State, Territory and Federal Governments to make a significant contribution to Australia’s achievement of targets set out in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, a strategy arising from the International Convention on Biological Diversity. Specific Outcome 39 Continue our partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in working on the Millennium Seed Bank Project and focusing locally on the Victorian Conservation Seedbank initiative to ensure the long-term preservation of seed from Victoria’s rare and threatened plant species and interpreting the Victorian Conservation Seedbank Project for visitors to RBG Melbourne and RBG Cranbourne. Action 24 Assist State,Territory and Federal Governments to develop and implement management plans for rare and threatened plants and ecosystems, both on the Royal Botanic Gardens’ sites and elsewhere. The Victorian Conservation Seedbank is Victoria’s greatest contributor to making threatened species accessible in ex situ collections. The Seedbank holds seedlots of approximately 50 per cent of Victoria’s c.700 threatened species in long-term storage. These are available for research and reintroduction projects. To date, over 40 species have been delivered for restoration programs by supplying seeds and plants. Many of these have been through the Threatened Orchid Recovery Team, of which the Plant Sciences branch and RBG Melbourne Nursery are critical partners. Plant Sciences branch has recently agreed to contribute plants and seed to the Western Grasslands Reserve restoration project. In 2010–11 the Victorian Conservation Seedbank sent 239 seed lots, 74 of them new to the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with duplicate collections held in long-term storage at RBG Melbourne. The Australian Seed Bank Partnership (ASBP) was formally established during the year and partnership-wide projects developed with the intention of gaining funding to keep unfunded chapters of the partnership (as is the case at RBG Melbourne) continuing. Funding from Kew formally ceased on 31 March 2011 and the project is unfunded beyond 30 September 2011. Avenues for further funding are being explored. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is providing the assistance of its Foundation to fundraise on behalf of the ASBP. The RBG Melbourne Nursery produced plant material for reintroduction into natural environments. These plants were produced for a range of Government and private agencies and include Nematolepis wilsonii, Leucopogon virgatus var. brevifolius and Taraxacum cygnorum. Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria Annual Report 2010–11 page 79
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