Plant Identification Workshops

The Australian Tropical Herbarium and the Wet Tropics Management Authority present Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants – Plant Identification Short Courses.

Our courses are open to the public, and teach skills in rainforest plant identification. Our courses are developed for the interested layperson.  We teach how to examine and identify plants using freely available resources.

These courses are ideal for the interested layperson, and will be of special interest to rangers, school science teachers, state and local government land managers and anyone with an interest in tropical Australia’s incredible biodiversity.

RAINFOREST PLANT IDENTIFICATION Workshops 2025

Enrolments open 9am Thursday 17 July

Darwin, James Cook University-Cairns, and Cape Tribulation

The Australian Tropical Herbarium, the Wet Tropics Management Authority and the NT Government are pleased to present our annual Rainforest Plant Identification Workshops.

The rainforests of the Wet Tropics and the Top End are beautiful and incredibly diverse. But that very diversity can pose difficulties – how can we understand and manage these forests if we don’t know the species we’re looking at? Our workshops aims to teach participants the skills and knowledge needed to identify the rainforest flora using free online plant identification tools and hands-on experience.

The workshop is targeted at the interested layperson, and will be of interest to:

• school science teachers
• state and local government land managers and rangers
• anyone with an interest in Tropical Australia’s incredible biodiversity

Details of the courses are as follows.

All courses run from 8:30 to 4 each day.

Morning tea and lunches are supplied – please advise of any dietary preferences when
you register. For more information, please email enquiry@ath.org.au or call 4232 1758.

Spaces are limited, and enrolments close a week before the course commencement date.

Workshops will run in 2025, dates to be advised.