Save a Species Walk
{{Short description|Charitable event conducted in Australia to raise funds for rare and endangered plants}}
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Save a Species Walk is an event in New South Wales in Australia focused on preservation of rare and endangered plants.
Each event includes nominating specific plants.{{cite web |url=https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species |title=Royal Botanic Garden - Save a Species |website=www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615122821/https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species |archive-date=2016-06-15}}
It involves a walk to raise money for seeds to be prepared and stored at the Australian PlantBank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/race-to-save-11-endangered-plants-in-nsw-20160408-go1yxf.html|title = Scientists race to save 11 endangered plants in NSW|date = 9 April 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://www.everydayhero.com.au/events/event_has_finished/19793 |title=Everyday Hero Australia: Save a Species 2016 |website=www.everydayhero.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017101708/https://www.everydayhero.com.au/events/event_has_finished/19793 |archive-date=2017-10-17}}
Plants by year
The plants identified below are from the Royal Botanic Garden website {{cite web |url=https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species |title=Royal Botanic Garden - Save a Species |website=www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615122821/https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Join-Support/Donate-Now/Save-a-Species |archive-date=2016-06-15}}
=2014=
- needle-leaved geebung Persoonia acerosa
- glandular pink-bell Tetratheca glandulosa
- Olearia cordata
- Zieria involucrata
=2015=
- thick leaf star hair Astrotricha crassifolia
- Budawangs cliff heath Epacris gnidioides (syn. Budawangia gnidioides)
- white flowered wax plant Cynanchum elegans
- buttercup doubletail orchid Diuris aequalis
- sparse heath Epacris sparsa
- Fletchers drumsticks Isopogon fletcheri
- Evans sedge Lepidosperma evansianum
- Woronora beard heath Leucopogon exolasius
- dwarf mountain pine Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii
- velvet zieria Zieria murphyi
- black hooded sun orchid Thelymitra atronitida
- villous mint bush Prostanthera densa
- Euphrasia bowdeniae
- Grevillea parviflora subsp. supplicans
- Hibbertia stricta subsp. furcatula
=2016=
- narrow-leaved bertya Bertya ingramii
- four-tailed grevillea Grevillea quadricauda
- bordered guinea flower Hibbertia marginata
- Dorrigo waratah Alloxylon pinnatum
- tall knotweed Persicaria elatior
- Moonee Quassia Quassia sp. Mooney Creek
- trailing monotoca Monotoca rotundifolia
- creeping hop-bush Dodonaea procumbens
- Suggan Buggan mallee Eucalyptus saxatilis
- Bega wattle Acacia georgensis
- musty leek orchid Prasophyllum pallens