Through meetings with expert speakers, periodicals, websites and publishing the Australian Plants Society helps conservationists carry out bush regeneration, landcare and dunecare, represent the conservation interest on government committees and hold informed opinions on plant conservation. Around half of the 2400 members in NSW are active in bushcare, landcare or dunecare, on their own land and public land. The Society also provides a network of like minded people.

While Society members are engaged in many different approaches to conservation, practical and campaigning, the Australian Plants Society continues its grass roots campaign to increase interest in and knowledge of Australian plants. Professional plant people (including bush regenerators, Landcare coordinators, plant scientists) make up 15% of the Society's members but Society members also include commercial and hobby growers, journalists, artists and teachers.

Conservation is only one of the Australian Plants Society's aims which are the conservation, cultivation and appreciation of Australian plants. Education is one of the main ways of carrying this out so members and users of the Society's email periodicals and published books learn more about Australian plants - their diversity, identification, ecology, cultivation - which all have a bearing on conservation.

For what the Society did in 2001, click on Activities 2001.