Ginninderra News
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16 Oct 2020
Ginninderra trials helping Blakely’s Red Gum beat dieback
CSIRO is partnering with the ACT Government and Greening Australia to conduct provenance trials at Ginninderra to ensure the long-term survival of the iconic Blakely’s Red Gum. One of the iconic eucalypt species of the open grassy woodlands of south eastern Australia is the...
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24 Sep 2020
Project update – September 2020
With wattles blooming and lambs relishing the green pastures – spring has arrived at Ginninderra. After a horrendous hot, dry and bushfire smoke-filled summer, it’s encouraging to see the spring growth and green landscape that has emerged from good rainfall across autumn and winter....
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23 Sep 2020
Shrubs sprouting and birds are back at planting sites
It only takes a few minutes among the community shrub plantings at Ginninderra to see and hear the transformation that is taking place across the Box Gum Grassy Woodlands and Dry Forest sites. Following excellent autumn and winter rainfall, after a very dry and...
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14 Aug 2020
CSIRO targets ‘Team Australia’ missions for a brighter future
CSIRO is drawing on its 100-year history to develop a missions program and a ‘Team Australia’ approach with partners across science and industry, to support Australia through tough times. On the centenary of CSIRO’s first mission, to eliminate Prickly Pear, the national science agency...
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06 Aug 2020
Urban Living Labs enable greener, smarter, cleaner cities
New opportunities to demonstrate smarter, greener and cleaner cities are emerging through the ‘COVID reset’ and CSIRO’s first Urban Living Lab – a collaboration with developer, Celestino in Sydney Science Park west of the Sydney. Temperatures in Western Sydney have intensified with recent hotter...