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OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C
Specific Outcome Measure Result
34 (Display
wild-collected
plant species)
Areas planted with indigenous
plant species are maintained to
high curatorial standards
Indigenous plant species are
considered and used where
appropriate when developing
areas of RBG Melbourne
Victorian indigenous plant species were
planted into the Rare and Threatened
Species Beds, Australian Forest Walk,
Herbarium Bed, and Conifer Border.
35 (Environmental
weed education,
eradication and
management)
A collaborative project with the
Department of Primary Industries
(DPI) for a molecular identification
tool for stipoid grasses, which pose
a biosecurity threat for Victoria,
developed
A molecular identification tool for stipoid
grasses was developed and used to
identify batches of Mexican Feather grass,
thereby thwarting a potential threat to
Victoria’s biosecurity.
36 (RBG
Cranbourne
remnant
vegetation
management
program)
Conservation Zone vegetation
maintained at ‘high quality’ status
Management strategies were implemented
including a grassy weed control program
and prescribed burns conducted.
(See Specific Outcome 36 for further
details.)
37 (Grassy
woodland weed
control)
Vegetation survey data shows a
reduction in the cover abundance
of grassy weed species
Environmental weed control continued;
however, due to competing priorities,
vegetation survey data collection was
insufficient to determine abundance trends.
38 (Global Strategy
for Plant
Conservation)
Priority plant identifications provided in
a collaborative effort with DPI to assess
and monitor the spread of new and
emerging weed species
The Plant Identification and Information
Service provided the DPI with priority
identifications of suspected new and
emerging weeds.
39 (Millennium
Seed
Bank and
Victorian
Conservation
Seedbank
partnership)
Number of species for which seed has
been collected as part of the Victoria
Conservation Seedbank initiative
(measured against previous years)
In 2010–11, the Victorian Conservation
Seedbank sent 239 seed lots (74 of them
new) to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Duplicate collections are held in long-term
storage at the Royal Botanic Gardens
Melbourne. In 2009–10, 164 seed
collections were made, and in 2008–09
165 collections were made.
Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria Annual Report 2010–11 page 81