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.
* 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