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USEFUL LINKS

• The Australian National Botanic Gardens specialises in Australian Native Plants. As well as maintaining gardens at Black Mountain in the ACT and the Booderee (formerly Jervis Bay) National Park on the NSW South Coast, it carries out research and catalogues and records species. The web site provides access to some of this information, and is continually being enlarged and improved.

  Extend your botanical skills and identify local Australian plants using plant identification tools, microscopes, and a public reference herbarium collection at the Botanical Resource Centre. Open seven days a week from 9.30am to 4.30pm and free of charge, visitors can browse the public reference herbarium of plants from ACT and south-eastern New South Wales, test their identification skills or bring specimens to identify (from ACT and south-eastern NSW region). Trained volunteer facilitators are present on Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings, and can be booked to give an introductory tour on other days.
  
  Focusing on identification of flora from the Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales, the centre is a great resource for students and researchers, plant surveyors and native plant enthusiasts and amateur botanists.

  The following interactive computer keys are available on the computers in the Botanical Resource Centre:
  Families of Flowering Plants - key to the families
  Euclid - key to the eucalypts of Australia
  Wattle - key to the genus Acacia
  Australian Orchid Genera - key to the genera of Australian orchids
  The Pea Key - interactive website to identify Australia's pea flowers
  Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees and Shrubs - tropical rainforest plants

• The Federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has a large biodiversity database on Australian flora (ABRS Flora Online). Their biodiversity database on Australian fauna (ABRS Fauna Online) is also worth a look.

• The Australian Native Plant Society has a great web site for Australian plant enthusiasts. Their on-line journal is here and you can access their electronic blog "Gumnuts". They have links to all the State and Territory ANPSs, including the ACT.

• The ACT's Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water has information about ACT Nature Parks and Reserves. The Red Hill Reserve is part of Canberra Nature Park. Wikipedia also provides some information about the Red Hill Nature Park.

• If you want to know more about the native birds of Canberra, and how to attract them to your garden, try the Canberra Ornithologists Group.

• Burnley College, a part of the University of Melbourne, has a couple of small but very informative web pages on Native Flowering Grassland and a case study of urban bushland regeneration.

• EcoVoice provides a forum for extensive, up to date information on the environment and sustainable development. Eco Voice provides a regular and broad overview of environmental information. It covers everything from renewable energy and sustainable building to natural living and organic agriculture.

   

• Other links

  • ACT Parks, Conservation and Lands

  • ACT Landcare

  • Australian Association of Bush Regenerators

  • ACT and Region Frogwatch

  • ACT Waterwatch

  • ACT Natural Resource Management Council

  • The Atlas of Living Australia enables free access to Australian biodiversity information online. The Atlas will provide online access to biodiversity information from museums, herbaria and biological collections, including information previously not available to the public, research, literature, observations, maps and images. (Government web site)

  • Bush Heritage Australia - Our vision is to protect by 2025 one per cent of Australia (more than 7 million hectares) and in so doing conserve significant areas of Australia’s land and water of high conservation significance. This goal of one per cent has been derived from national scientific assessments which conclude that a significant proportion of Australia’s land mass needs to be protected in order to effectively conserve Australia’s animals and plants and their habitats. Volunteering activities are available. More...

  • Canberra Environment and Sustainability Resource Centre

  • Canberra Bushwalking Club

  • Canberra Indian Myna Action Group

  • Climate Action Canberra

  • Conservation Volunteers

  • Environmental Defenders Office is a non-profit community legal centre based in Canberra. It advises on environmental and planning law and aim to increase public awareness of environmental laws and remedies. It advises on questions of Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory law and offers a free telephone advice service on environmental-law questions.

  • Field Naturalists Association of Canberra Inc

  • Flora of Australia (Government web site)

  • Fauna of Australia (Government web site)

  • Friends of Grasslands

  • Ginninderra Catchment Group

  • Greening Australia

  • Molonglo Catchment Group

  • Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority

  • National Parks Association of the ACT

  • Nature Conservation Council of NSW - Urban Bushland Web site

  • Nature Conservation Trust of NSW

  • Our Gungahin Environment: Conservation Council of the ACT

  • Southern ACT Catchment Group - The Red Hill Regeneration Group is a member

  • Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Committee

  • Waterwatch ACT

  • Weeds in Australia (Government web site)

  • Weeds Australia (NGO)

• ACT Park Care Groups

  • Friends of the Aranda Bushland Inc

• Farrer Ridge Park Care Group

• Fisher Parkland Landcare Group

• Isaacs Ridge/ Mt Mugga Mugga Park Care Group

• Mt Taylor Park Care

• Coolemon Ridge Park Care

• Friends of Tuggeranong Hill and Conder Wetlands Park Care

• Friends of Mt Majura Park Care Group

• Friends of The Pinnacle

• Ginninderra Catchment Group