Boidiversity

This campaign is bringing together landmanagers and the community to implement the best scientific advice and to formulate action plans for the protection of habitats, healthy soils and a flourishing biodiversity in Australia.

Native plants need healthy soils to survive! The problems that plague soils in Australia - salinity, sodicity, acidity, acid sulphate, erosion, pesticides - threaten agriculture and also pose serious threats to nearby bushland, even National Parks. For example salinity, the Australian flora is remarkably salt tolerant but there are limits and not many will grow with the high levels of salinity found in salt pans and lakes and lesser levels will threaten many plants and ecological communities. The survival of the native fauna, from fish to birds, depends on the survival of the native flora.

More information is available on the NCC website www.nccnsw.org.au.

Conservation Policy

The conservation objective of the Australian Plants Society as stated in our constitution is :

"By any lawful means to foster, support and promote the preservation and conservation of Australian native plants."

Indigenous Australian plants have value as living organisms irrespective of their usefulness to humans or their value as habitat for other living things. Because all life forms in the Australian ecology are interdependent, the conservation of genetic diversity in plants requires a holistic approach that encompasses the preservation and conservation of all biological life forms and their habitats in all regions of Australia, on the land, in the air and in the waterways and seas.

The aim of plant conservation in biological terms is to maintain the capacity for species to be self perpetuating and to continue to evolve. Sufficient quantities of the plant species, the genetic diversity within them and vegetation communities must be conserved in order to provide sufficient habitat to sustain viable populations of other life forms.

Conservation Links

NSW

Southern Highlands Plant List

PLANT SPECIES LIST FOR THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS

PLEASE NOTE: This list is under construction. It is not complete. At present the list is for mainly sanstone based soils. This list in no way infers that any particular plant listed will grow well in your particular part of the Southern Highlands, as the soil, aspect, rainfall, treecover etc. will vary. You should use this list as a guide and look for more information on the species of interest by coming to one of our meetings.