Resources
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MEMBERS ONLY RESOURCES Provided by BGANZ botanic gardens to assist members in the formulation of policies, plans, procedures and other management issues. BGANZ Victoria Collections Planning Toolkit BGANZ Professional Development Group BGANZ has developed this communications toolkit to assist members—especially regional members—demonstrate the economic, social and environmental value of gardens. The WRAPM is a software package, developed by the ABGWN together with the Australian Weed Management CRC, that scores weed risk for a particular plant growing in your area. |
‘Growing Plants, Growing People: Older volunteers in botanic gardens’
Report by the National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre
The reports explores older people’s engagement in volunteering at botanic gardens... [read more]
Myrtle Rust (Uredo rangelii)
Myrtle rust is an introduced fungal pathogen that affects plants in the Myrtaceae family such as bottle brush, tea tree and eucalypts... [read more]
Introducing BGEN Australia and New Zealand
BGEN (The Botanic Gardens Education Network Australia and New Zealand) is a new special interest group that has been created under the BGANZ umbrella. The purpose of BGEN is to create a professional development network for Botanic Gardens staff and volunteers... [read more]
BGANZ Records Officers Network (BRON)
BGANZ Newsletter article | BRON google site
Anyone who has fielded telephone calls (or emails) at a botanic garden will know the value of good plant records. The day to day effort of keeping information up to date is well rewarded by the ability to respond to queries, and to give meaning to a living collection... [read more]
BGANZ and climate change
In January 2009 BGANZ Council formally adopted the National Strategy and Action Plan for the Role of Australia’s Botanic Gardens in Adapting to Climate Change (http://www.anbg.gov.au/chabg/climate-change/index.html) developed by the Council of Heads of Australia’s Botanic Gardens... [read more]