Vision and Mission

Our Vision is a future where Australia’s native plant diversity is valued, understood and conserved for the benefit of all.

We have created, for the first time, a formal network of nine conservation seed banks and three other flora-focused organisations bridging the gap between policy makers, researchers, seed collectors and on-ground conservation and restoration activities.

Our Mission is a national effort to conserve Australia’s native plant diversity through collaborative and sustainable seed collecting, banking, research and knowledge sharing.

The Partnership:

• maintains a nationally cooperative seed banking effort
• collects and stores seed in secure seed banks as long-term insurance against loss of biodiversity
• researches ways to improve conservation and restoration outcomes from seed banking
• trains and builds Australian expertise to support conservation and restoration
• shares knowledge about Australian flora and our work.

Grevillea halmaturina ssp laevis

The SA Seed Conservation Centre collected and banked Grevillea halmaturina subsp. laevis seeds during the 2012-13 collecting season.  This threatened plant species is endemic to the Eyre Peninsula. (Photo credit: SA Seed Conservation Centre)