Conservation

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As a collections-based institution, we act both to directly conserve species and to provide fundamental botanical research. 

We provide collections access to support plant and ecosystem conservation on local, state, national and international levels.

Our teams engage with communities and organisations with a conservation focus to build our understanding of the state of our ecosystems, key threats and ways of mitigating them, and to share openly that knowledge with others.

Plant seed conservation

SA Seed Conservation Centre

The Seed Conservation Centre helps to safeguard SA’s threatened flora against extinction.

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Horticultural conservation

Botanic Gardens play and important role in plant conservation by studying and growing threatened species, and educating the public.

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