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The Landscape Recovery Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that was established, by Enviro-dynamics with the aim of supporting conservation and land management with a particular focus on coordinating action on threatened species. One of the LRF’s projects is the Tasmanian Orchid Conservation and Research Program (TOCRP), which is a collaboration with the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG).
TOCRP aims to improve the conservation status of Tasmanian threatened orchids through the implementation of recovery actions identified in the National Tasmanian Threatened Orchid Flora Recovery Plan. The Recovery Plan identifies important conservation activities for 72 species occurring in Tasmania of which 36 are listed as threatened under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). TOCRP is hosted at the Tasmanian Seed Conservation Centre at the RTBG. It is currently focused on the Tasmanian Midlands, where some of the States’s most threatened orchids are found. For a number of target species, there are so few plants known that the only way to improve their conservation status is to discover more populations through extension surveys or translocating propagated plants
into new locations. Currently TOCRP undertake extension surveys with the help of volunteers, combing grassland remnants in spring-summer, looking for literal “needles in the haystack”. While surveys in 2022-23 located new populations of the Midlands greenhood and the golfer’s leek orchid, this took considerable human effort.