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SeedQuest New South Wales: An International Partnership for Plant Conservation

Promotional poster for SeedQuest NSW

This partnership is one of seven Australian partnerships in the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP).  The Partners will implement the Project with the purpose of:

 “enhancing the conservation of NSW plant species and ecological communities including those considered as threatened, through a program of improved seed banking and associated research.”

The Project addresses both the ex situ and the in situ conservation of NSW species and ecological communities. The Project purpose will be addressed through the delivery of the following three Project outputs: 

1) An increase in the number of long term seed collections of priority NSW species held and available;

2) Capacity building within RBG & DT, Sydney, including a review of current methods of ex situ seed conservation and the adoption of improved methods, where necessary;

3) The strengthening of recovery planning for threatened species and ecological communities.

 In its first three years SEEDQUEST NSW itself will ensure that:

* seed collections from at least 10% of the c. 540 listed endangered/vulnerable species are secured in the NSW Seedbank at Mt. Annan and duplicated to MSB for safe storage

* these collections will be supported by seed studies to establish germination protocols

* at least 40 of these species are already the subject of recovery plans either active or currently in draft

* further collections of c. 1250 keystone species of the 57 habitat types recognised in NSW will also be made.

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