Acknowledgements

BGANZ acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work and pays our respects to their Elders, past and present. The work we do falls across the lands of many First Nations people. BGANZ pays our respects to all Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and First Nations people who have a connection to the lands on which botanic gardens sit, and who work with botanic gardens around the world to protect the plants we all care about.

The BGANZ Living Collections Toolkit has been developed through BGANZ with the generous support of the Victorian Government Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. It has been led by a collaborative working group representing botanic gardens across Australia and New Zealand. We would like to thank everyone involved in this project. In particular we would like to extend our thanks to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, who generously provided access to collections documents, and to the Australian Network for Plant Conservation Inc who have allowed us to reproduce portions of the document Plant Germplasm Conservation in Australia. This document is also greatly indebted to the previous BGANZ Collections Planning Toolkit Handbook.

Project Coordinators

John Arnott Manager Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Sheree Parker Supervisor, Geelong Botanic Gardens

Project Working Group

Wolfgang Bopp Director of Botanic Gardens and Garden Parks, Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Terence Moon Ranger Team Leader, Dandenong Ranges Gardens
John Sandham Collections Development Officer, Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, Adelaide Botanic Garden
Amanda Shade Nursery Curator and Trainee Coordinator at Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Kings Park and Botanic Garden
Peter Symes Botanic Gardens Curator, Cook Shire Council
Donna Thomas Curator Gardens and Nursery, City of Ballarat
Amelia Yensen Project Manager, Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Honorary Associate, Australian PlantBank, Australian Institute for Botanical Science

Production Team

andrea proctor landscapes Toolkit development, project coordination, research, content and editing
Anthouse Graphic Design
Makeweb Programming and Web Development

The Living Collections Toolkit was developed by BGANZ, with text and content by andrea proctor landscapes, Graphic Design by Anthouse and website development by Makeweb. All supplied text, images, programming and materials remains copyright of BGANZ and the original authors. It is only provided for the purposes of Living Collections Development and use in Living Collections Plans produced using the BGANZ Living Collections Toolkit. No other use is permitted without written permission of BGANZ.