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Southern Highlands Monthly Meeting - Speaker: Orchids with Alan Stephenson

  • 3 Aug 2017
  • 2:00 PM
  • CWA rooms in Elizabeth St Moss Vale (between the Fire Station and Wingecarribee Shire Council Chambers)

All welcome


Alan W. Stephenson - our August speaker. Edited Notes from the Australian Orchid Foundation on his receipt of the Award of Honour in 2015.

Alan Stephenson’s work in for the conservation of native orchids is unsurpassed. He has fought tenaciously for the protection of native orchids, lobbying all levels of Government and nominating threatened orchids to the NSW Scientific Committee. Alan has been Conservation Officer for the Australian Orchid Council and for the Australasian Native Orchid Society and his well-received papers on orchid conservation have been published in specialised journals.

Regularly he combs the bush looking for orchids and he has located numerous new populations of uncommon, rare and threatened species. He has willingly shared his knowledge and experience with community groups and orchid clubs, writing more than 300 articles for various Australian orchid publications and self-publishing the well-illustrated and authoritative book Orchid Species of the Shoalhaven. Alan is an accomplished photographer, using his own photographs to educate and support his talks.

Alan was made a Fellow of the Australian Orchid Council for his outstanding work on conservation. The endangered species orchid from Nowra, Corunastylis stephensonii D.L. Jones, has been appropriately named in his honour. 




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