The Botanic Garden that Thought it Could Change the World @ Royal Botanical Gardens Victoria

Saturday 21st August 2021, 1pm.

Join acclaimed writer and climate activist Sophie Cunningham (author of Melbourne and City of Trees) in conversation with Clare Hart, Manager Horticulture, and Peter Symes, Curator Horticulture, about the Gardens’ Landscape Succession Strategy and the international Climate Change Alliance of Botanic Gardens. Collaboration between botanic gardens across the globe is essential in understanding how plants will grow and survive in a warming climate. Clare and Peter will discuss how the Climate Change Alliance was formed right here in Melbourne, and how botanic gardens can harness their expertise to share and exchange skills and information on a global platform.

This event will be live-streamed for free.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners from all First Nations communities across Victoria and the essential ancestral knowledge held and recovered by Elders. We acknowledge that this land and its millennia-old relationship with First Nations people was never ceded. We acknowledge the process of truth telling with our First Scientists, the knowledge keepers and Custodians of Country. To you we convey our deep respect.