Active in the NCC Soils Habitats Biodiversity Campaign

A grant was made to the Nature Conservation Council of NSW for the Soils Habitats Biodiversity Campaign

Represented the NCC on the NPWS Working Group to develop a Deer Management Plan for Royal National Park

A grant was made to Burrendong Arboretum for plant identification tags.

Supported Community Biodiversity Month by activities and publicity

Supported the Save the ADI Site campaign

A grant was made for new interpretive signs at Shortlands Wetlands, a Field Studies Centre for the NSW Dept.of Education and Training.

Armidale District Group continued its working bees to maintain the native plant section of the Arboretum in Armidale.

Blue Mountains District Group raised funds for the Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve Trust and in partnership with the Blue Mountains Conservation Society, supplied local plants of local provenance through the Group's Nursery at the Reserve.

Blue Mountains District Group provided $750.00, the cost of labour and materials, for fencing off natural bushland where the vulnerable species, Melaleuca deanei, occurs in Springwood.

Blue Mountains District Group's Annual Seminar "When the Woods are Cleared …" considered the potential of native plantings for landscaping, community amenity and redressing environmental problems.

Central Coast District Group continued working on its bushcare project to restore sections of the rainforest margins in Katandra Reserve, in Gosford City Local Government area.

Coloured brochure and Fact Sheets written by the Central Coast District Group were reprinted and distributed to residents with the financial help of the Local Government Councils of Wyong and Gosford.

The herbarium of local plants, collected and preserved by the Central Coast District Group, continues to be expanded and the second copy housed at the University of Newcastle's Ourimbah campus is being well used. Though some 500 common species have so far been collected and mounted, there are many more still to be added.

Central West District Group continued its work on the establishment of a public native garden at Oberon which will include examples of local native plants and which was supported with a grant from the Australian Plants Society. The project is also supported by Oberon Council and the local school.

Central West District Group members assisted with the development of the species list for the Windradyne Garden at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst and the list was also distributed to Landcare groups in the district who are interested in including traditional food and medicinal plants in their revegetation projects.

The interests of conservationists and bush regenerators in Far North Coast District Group were covered by monthly outdoor activities which included three weekend trips to National Parks.

The work of preservation of 35,000 dried plant specimens collected by the retired botanist Keith Ingram OA (sadly now deceased) was supported by regular working bees by members of the Hawkesbury District Group. Many of the specimens came from the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains areas and when completed will be housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.

Inner Sydney District Group, with the help of Rozelle/Annandale Landcare and Strathfield Community Nursery, provided plants to the public at the Summer Hill Winter Solstice Festival.

Three members of Macarthur District Group spend two days each week working as volunteers at a Community Nursery in the Wollondilly Shire where indigenous seeds were sourced and the nursery area weeded and replanted. The Nursery is now the main supplier of indigenous plants to Wollondilly Shire Council for roadside revegetation and riparian repair, and to local Landcare groups and Schools etc. Vegetation assessments are done, plant and weed ID.

Monthly, six members of the Macarthur District Group join the Manager of the Cumberland Plain conservation area at Mt. Annan Botanic Gardens in a variety of bush regeneration work.

At the Grevillea Study Groups Autumn Plant Show each year, Macarthur Group has a stall and promotes local native plant species.

Nowra District Group again put on its annual display at the NPWS Visitor Centre at Fitzroy Falls.

Thirty weekly native plant identification walks were organised by members of the Nowra District Group.
Bush Telegraph Green awards were won by six members of Nowra Group.

North Shore District Group continued its fortnightly bush regeneration activities at the Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden.

A native plant identification course led by Dr. Joan Webb was organised over six weeks by North Shore District Group at the Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden.

North Shore District Group's regular Tuesday Walks and Talks progam were held over 30 sessions which were attended by an average of 25 participants per week. These sessions teach native plant identification skills with some ecology.

Members of Parramatta and the Hills District Group carried out a survey of plants at the Round Corner, Dural site owned by the Baptist Church and made suggestions about the possible regeneration of native species on the site.

A member of the Parramatta Hills District Group was appointed as the Nature Conservation Council's representative on the Baulkham Hills Bushfire Management Committee.

Sutherland District Group sent in submissions on mountain bike riding in National Parks, a boat ramp at Bonnie Vale, Meanai Indoor Sports Centre and the sandhills at Kurnell.

Sutherland District Group commenced their Coast Walk Plant Identification project to compile a CD with photos and notes on plants found along the Coast walk track in the Royal National Park. The project aims to facilitate easy, rapid and accurate identification of plants. A group of members have been making regular excursions to photograph plants with more than 250 species already identified and recorded in the database.

Wagga Wagga District Group conducted workshops on plant propagation and identification.