About Us
Who we are
We are the national network of people, research and action for plant conservation.
We are a membership based organisation that’s been around since 1991, with 2 staff and 1 volunteer in the Canberra head office, 2 project managers around Australia, and a management committee of 14 who oversee and contribute to everything we do.
ANPC Committee members and staff at the strategic planning workshop Feb 2025.
From left (standing): Bob Makinson, David Coates, Martin Driver, Paul Donatiu, Paul Adam, Heidi Zimmer, Jo Lynch, Kelli Gowland, Pip Walsh (Lucy Commander on screen), Daniel McKinnon and Melissa Millar.
From left (front): Caroline Gross, Tony Auld, Linda Broadhurst, Kathy Eyles, Chantelle Doyle, Robert Hawes, Andrew Fairney and Richie Southerton.
Photo: Mia Swainson
What we do
Plant Conservation Australia brings people together from across Australia to collaborate, network and share information in an effort to conserve our native plant species and vegetation communities, prevent further extinctions and restore our bushland and biodiversity.
To achieve this we hold and co-host workshops, webinars and conferences, publish guidelines and a journal, and coordinate high priority projects.
We work with a wide range of stakeholders including botanic gardens, local state and federal governments, research institutions, other NGOs, practitioners and community groups.
Plant Conservation Australia:
- links you to others active in plant conservation all around Australia.
- is a forum for the exchange of information and ideas.
- publishes findings from current research and on-ground practice.
- publishes plant conservation guidelines, like how to propagate and translocate threatened plants back into the wild.
- holds a biennial national plant conservation conference – the next conference will be held in Port Douglas in August 2026.
- holds workshops and webinars in plant conservation.
- promotes an ecological focus in on-ground conservation, rehabilitation and management of remnant vegetation, threatened plants and ecological communities.
- provides members with a quarterly bulletin Australasian Plant Conservation and discounts for workshops and conferences.
- provides information and updates through this website and our montly newsletter.
Join the ANPC to help us improve plant conservation in Australia!
The Australian Network for Plant Conservation Incorporated (ABN : 70 861 480 818) is:
- a not-for-profit organisation.
- an incorporated body governed by a constitution.
- registered for Deductible Gift Recipient Status with the Australian Taxation Office.
- endorsed as a Charitable Institution for charity tax concessions.
History
Plant Conservation Australia hasn’t always been the way it is now. Up until 2026 we were known as the Australian Network for Plant Conservation. A couple of articles are reproduced here to record how things were. More can be gleaned from old issues of Danthonia and Australasian Plant Conservation, the ANPC journal.
- A background paper prepared for the Biodiversity Information Network electronic on-line workshop in Brazil in June 1992
- An article, The Australian Network for Plant Conservation and Threatened Plant Germplasm Conservation, June 1998