Spiny Rice-flower (๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด subsp. ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด)
Learning from mitigation translocations.
What happens when a threatened plant is growing in an intended development location?
Often under Australian legislation, impacts can be โoffsetโ and the plant translocated. Moved, salvaged, re-grown in pots and planted elsewhere. But does that really work?!
Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens is (probably) Australia's most salvaged plant and has a few valuable lessons to teach- about ecology, collaboration and open accessibility of knowledge.
Over 23 years the team has worked to improve success rates and sharing of outcomes that were once held as 'client in confidence', so that everyone involved in translocation has an opportunity to learn what has and has not worked.
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Interviewees: Debbie Reynolds (Trust for Nature), Will Larsen (Brimbank City Council), Steve Mueck (Biosis). Special thanks for their time and candor. And to their employers for supporting this project.
This story has been produced with the support of the Australian Network for Plant Conservationโs Plants Going Places project, the Ross Trust and the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub.
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