Emma Cooke - 'Breaking family ties: The genetic rescue of Canberra’s Small Purple Pea population'

Emma will discuss work done over the last nine years by the National Seed Bank, ANBG nursery, ACT Office of Nature Conservation and the Parks and Conservation Service teams to collect seed from across the region, establish a seed production orchard, grow on established plants for translocation and design and implement a translocation plan incorporating both genetic rescue and ex-situ population formation of the Small Purple Pea.

Biography

Emma works as a field ecologist with the ACT government’s Office of Nature conservation. She is a vegetation ecologist, specialising in the conservation of rare and threatened flora and vegetation communities of the ACT. She guides policy and management and runs monitoring and conservation projects.

Bookings open 21 March.

Booking link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXZXM