QTPN Threatened Flora Workshops
The Queensland Threatened Plant Network (QTPN*) holds many community-based training workshops and presentations
This includes the highly popular Threatened Flora Survey Training workshops. These workshops build the community’s capacity to undertake strategic and highly valuable surveys of rare flora, fill key gaps in our knowledge of their distribution, and assist in the long term planning, implementation and monitoring of recovery actions.
The workshops involve an initial 2-hour session providing an overview of threatened plant species in Queensland, covering such topics as:
- establishing a species profile.
- survey tools.
- permits to collect specimens.
- key information to collect in the field.
- threatened plant survey proforma.
- collecting herbarium voucher specimens.
- standard threatened flora survey techniques (as per Queensland Herbarium guidelines).
The remainder of the day is spent in the field demonstrating and conducting real-life threatened flora surveys so participants gain practical experience implementing the survey techniques.
Contact QTPN Project Manager Paul Donatiu for more information or if your group is interested in hosting a QTPN-led workshop or presentation.
Feedback from QTPN Threatened Flora Survey Training workshops
“I would like to extend my belated but sincere thanks for your time and efforts during your recent visit to the Gold Coast. Several team members have shared unprompted, highly positive feedback regarding the flora survey workshop. In particular, they commended the professional and informative manner in which you and Jen delivered the content, as well as your hands-on approach in the field, which greatly enhanced their skills and understanding of various flora survey and species identification techniques.”
Adam Northam, DETSI
“Gudamulli Paul
On behalf of the Land and Sea Rangers, I would like to sincerely thank you for hosting the Floral Survey Training Workshop at the Gracemere Rangers Compound on the 18th of September 2025. Your dedication and passion for understanding the threats faced by our threatened flora species, both now and into the future, is truly admirable.
We especially appreciate the respect you show for Indigenous culture and native plants, values that are deeply important to us. The Land and Sea Rangers thoroughly enjoyed the workshop, and I personally appreciated the way you engaged everyone and inspired interest in the work being done to protect our unique flora.
I really enjoyed working with you and hope that this collaboration can continue in the near future. Thank you again for your time, expertise, and commitment to both cultural and ecological preservation.”
Much Yadaba
Roeina Edmund
Darumbal Land and Sea Senior Ranger
“Your presentation and notes recently on endangered botanical species were just the fodder for me. I have been scouting Mt. Tinbeerwah for nearly 30 years and I printed out info thanks to the useful web connections you supplied at the workshop. Yesterday, three of us found Prostanthera spathulata in flower. Today I went back and counted over 20 plants in flower. I was and am so excited and thank you for your inspiration. I shall be on the lookout on my continued exploration of this wonderful mountain. I just want to say the work you do is extremely important and is an amazing contribution to the preservation of the botanical world, so thank you.”
Louise Ryan, Mooloolaba Flora Survey Training workshop participant
* The Queensland Threatened Plant Network (QTPN) was launched in March 2024 to facilitate a collaborative approach to threatened plant recovery in Queensland.
Banner image: Participants on the field component of a Capricornia Flora Survey Training Workshop identifying and recording an unnamed Comesperma species in the Canoona region. Credit: Paul Donatiu