What happened to the plant cuttings collected through Survive and Thrive?
The Australian National Botanic Gardens team grew them into 265 new plants! Research on their growth, pollination, flowering and seed setting continues on in the ANBG nursery.
parkstrust.org.au/project/surviv…
📷Australian National Botanic Gardens

'What's the use of saving seeds if we don’t know how to turn them back into plants?'
Seed Biologist, Dr Gemma Hoyle is working out what our 'Survive and Thrive' seeds need to germinate – not always easy when it comes to Australia's flora! parkstrust.org.au/project/surviv…
📷Australian National Botanic Gardens

The Survive and Thrive team have made 48 field trips 🥾🥾to over 20 locations, slogged through bogs, over massive granite boulders and up and down a lot of mountain sides 🏔!
Read how the project started parkstrust.org.au/project/surviv…
#SeedBank #Conservation #BushfireRecovery
📷Australian National Botanic Gardens

☀️The perfect way to spend summer!🏖
An Australian fur seal🦭just chilling at Booderee National Park.
Read more about our work here parkstrust.org.au/projects/
#seebooderee #Jervis #conservation #biodiversity #australianmarinespecies
📷Parks Australia

🎵Tis the season for Christmas bells (Blandfordia grandiflora)🎶
Found in swampy coastal areas from Sydney to Brisbane they often flower around Christmas, hence their 'common' name.
It is a special treat to find these delicate native beauties in the wild.
📷 Murray Fagg

Is this the most beautiful bird in Australia?
The golden bosun, with its golden hue and long tail feathers or 'streamers', is a magical sight above Christmas Island.

📷©Barry Baker

SEASON'S GREETINGS!
Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season from the National Parks Conservation Trust.
Thank you for your support in 2022. You are helping making a positive change in our iconic national parks and gardens.
Firewheel tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus
📷June Anderson

This chunky little fellow🐭should never be confused with the introduced house mouse!
An Australian native, the Eastern Chestnut mouse is up to twice the body length of the house mouse and three to four times the weight 🐀🐁! This one was recorded at Booderee NP
📷Parks Australia

The Christmas Island frigatebird is into kleptoparasitism!
Nothing kinky, it just means it is a bit of a pirate🏴‍☠️and steals food from other birds whenever it can.
It is also becoming increasingly rare with only around 5000 individuals remaining.
📷Christoph Moning

What Champions! Our Christmas Island Junior Rangers are hard at work building over 400 new homes🏠for the threatened Lister’s Gecko🦎- getting ready for a November 'soft-release' of this captive-breed, critically endangered gecko.
📷 Parks Australia

Passionate about the environment and Australia's unique wildlife? Join us!
We are seeking to appoint two pro bono positions:
🐨 Accountant / Bookkeeper
🐨 Finance Trustee
volunteer.com.au/volunteering?o…
#volunteer #boardofdirectors #environment #accounting
📷Parks Australia

Move over Jimmy Choo,👠these fuchsia boots are divine! On trend, water proof, comfortable enough to wear everyday!
The owner of this great looking footwear is the red-footed booby - an amazing seabird species that breeds on Christmas Island.
📷 Parks Australia

You may never see them in person, but isn't the world a better place for having these beautiful blue-tailed skinks in it!
A captive breeding program is keeping this critically endangered skink safe until it can be released back into its Christmas Island home.
📷Parks Australia

Do you call a gathering of hermit crabs a 'cast', or a 'consortium'? Either way, we are talking about a lot of hermit crabs 🦀!
This 'cast' was photographed in @PuluKeeling - one of the iconic National Parks where we support on-ground conservation.
📷 Parks Australia

Three tiny specs of land 🏝, surrounding reefs, seagrass meadows, sand flats and lagoon - this is Ashmore Reef Marine Park. Small, special, very remote and under threat!
📷 M.Glover

Our babies are blooming! 💐

Shiny Phebalium cuttings, collected as part of our project, Survive and Thrive. Now flowering at Australian National Botanic Gardens!

Great outcome for all partners collaborating to protect our precious #Australian plants.
📷National Parks Conservation Trust
#Conservation

Dr David Thuo collecting Tjakuṟa eDNA samples at Uluṟu.
Dr Thuo CSIRO is working with the Tjakuṟa Rangers at Uluṟu NT and Parks Australia to integrate cutting edge eDNA science with traditional knowledge to improve management of the threatened Tjakuṟa.

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Meet the Orange-footed scrubfowl, 'Megapodius reinwardt', seen here at Kakadu. 'Megapode' means 'big foot' and those big, strong orange legs and feet are used to rake the ground in search of food and to build large nesting mounds in which the hen lays her eggs.
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