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2024-2025 Field season

By Peter Harrison, TPT Newsletter Editor

What a bumper field season it has been! The Threatened Plants Tasmania held a total of nine field trips over the 2024-2025 season, with volunteers contributing important population census information that supports the on-going management for many of Tasmania’s threatened plants. Many thanks to all the volunteers for their valuable help and continued support to protect Tasmania’s iconic flora. Some highlights from this year include: the third highest number of sagg spider orchids recorded since the annual survey first begun; the discovery of a new population of Pterostylis commutata and Prasophyllum incorrectum; new discoveries of the Milford leek
orchid; and the highest number of the crowed leek orchid seen at Surry Hills in the past three years, which was topped off by the discovery of new tiny midge-orchid and short bentgrass populations.

The 2025-2026 field season is shaping up to be another amazing year and we look forward to seeing you all on the trips.

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2025 President’s Report

by Priscilla Richards

This was a transition year for TPT, with the biggest turnover in committee members in quite a while. Behind the scenes, we’ve had a year of settling into our new roles, getting everyone up to speed on using our systems, and reviewing our policies and procedures. 

TPT has had another successful year assisting our partner organisations to conduct critical surveys and recovery actions for a number of threatened flora. Collectively we provided approximately 980 volunteer hours in the field over 25 days, and we thank everyone who has been able to participate or contribute through membership.

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Member Update, Sept 2024

by Priscilla Richards

Thank you to everyone who made it to the AGM last month. The speaker for the event, Alexia Gaba-Landry from NRE Threatened Species Section, gave an insightful look into the process of listing (and de-listing) threatened species. She was pleasantly surprised by the engaging questions and enthusiasm for learning about what is quite a bureaucratic process, albeit one with important implications for Tasmania’s threatened flora. We hope to welcome her back soon!

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2024 President's Report

by Geoff Curry

Another year has passed and TPT is in a strong position with members putting themselves forward to take positions on the committee, this will only make TPT a better organization as they will bring varied experiences and contacts with them. I am hopeful that all vacant positions can be filled to continue the work done by the committee over the past years. I thank the retiring members of the committee for their contribution to making TPT what it is today.

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2023 President's Report

by Geoff Curry

The last year has been another successful year for TPT. Over 800 volunteer hours were contributed by TPT members and we thank everyone for their participation. This year's report is a quick look back on some of the trip highlights and the potential for nationally significant projects going forward.

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Member Update

By Geoff Curry

Our TPT AGM is booked for Saturday 9th September in The Pod at the Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens in Hobart starting at 10.00am. Further reminders and an Agenda will be distributed before the date.

Please put the date into your diary and give some careful consideration to stepping up and taking on a role in running TPT. A number of the Committee Members have held their positions for several years and I have personally been a Committee Member since 2009 and Field Trip Leader since 2010. I feel its time I hand my role onto one of TPT's newer members. We are also looking for someone to take on the role of Secretary.

The Committee has done a great job of putting together a comprehensive draft Field Trip Program that includes the continuation of our long term monitoring programs and some very interesting Field Trips to new sites that will cover a diverse range of threatened species, habitats and locations across the state.

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President’s Report

By Geoff Curry

2020 was a year of change for everybody, and TPT was faced with many challenges. My thanks go to the hard-working Committee who have been very busy in the background keeping TPT running and moving forward. Despite all the challenges in 2020, there have been some very exciting developments over the last 12 months that will dramatically improve the running of TPT.

Early last year the Committee held a planning session to discuss the future direction of TPT and begin developing a Strategic Plan. We discussed the possibility of changing our model to enable us to take more ownership over the type of projects and partners we work with. It was decided to undertake a call for projects and field trips from a range of partner organisations for the 2020/2021 field season. This resulted in a diverse and exciting field trip program, with interest from DPIPWE, Forico, NRM South, Tasmanian Land Conservancy, Enviro-dynamics, and Glenorchy Council. You can read more about these trips in this newsletter.

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From the President

By Inger Visby

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