Conservation

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

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.

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

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Habitat restoration & threatened species

Documenting and restoring habitats, and re-establishing plants in the wild.

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Horticultural conservation

Botanic Gardens play and important role in plant conservation by studying and growing threatened species.

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Plant seed conservation

SA Seed Conservation Centre

Safeguarding SA’s threatened flora through seed preservation.

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Weeds & introduced plants

Documenting introduced plants and detecting weed incursions is a key part of the State Herbarium’s work.

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