INTERPRETING BIODIVERSITY
WORKSHOP SERIES
Fitzgerald Biosphere
12 - 13 April 2025
Join the first of a series of 2-day workshops with leading landscape ecologists, botanists, and other environmental educators to bring people closer to the exceptional and yet seriously threatened biodiversity of the Fitzgerald Biosphere.
OUR VISION
1. To build awareness about the importance of biodiversity in WA and around the world
2. Increase knowledge about all aspects of biodiversity conservation
3. Build capacity in the community to become citizen scientists and contribute to knowledge through gaining skills in data gathering and monitoring of our precious biodiversity.
Join us if you want to:
learn how to interpret the existing flora of an ecological landscape
learn the basics of monitoring and data gathering, including setting up quadrats, surveying, identifying species
identify some of the survival mechanisms present in WA wildflowers to survive the extreme conditions such a fire, draught, poor soils, and optimising pollination
enjoy two half-day walks in the Fitzgerald River National Park - West Mt Barren & the Mamang Trail
become an active citizen scientist and contribute to our knowledge and understanding of biodiversity
Enjoy the camping experience at Tozer’s Bush Camp
Nathan McQuoid - landscape ecologist will be collaborating on some our biodiversity events.
Erika at Tozer’s Bushcamp - Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve - Western Australia
ABOUT THE FITZGERALD BIOSPHERE
Western Australia well deserves to be known as the wildflower state, supporting more than 12,500 plant species (8,952 endemic to the state).
The southwest botanical province is particularly extraordinary in its biodiversity and one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots where at least 1500 plant species that grow there have lost more than 70% of their natural habitats.
The Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve , which includes the Fitzgerald River National Park, Ravensthorpe and Jerramungup, is a major component of the southwest’s unique biodiversity. It is also one of only four UNESCO listed Biosphere Reserves in Australia and one of Australia’s most important biodiversity assets.
Map of the Fitzgerald Biosphere - this workshop is on the west side of the park near Bremer Bay
More than 2,000 floral species are found there, over 70% of them endemic.
That is, they grow nowhere else in the world. Many of the species are rare and need further study and identification.
TOZER’S BUSH CAMP
Sunrise at Tozer’s Bush Camp