Host

Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Australia, is pleased to be hosting MEDECOS XI in 2007. Western Australia is acknowledged as a global plant biodiversity hotspot, laying claim to half of Australia’s rich plant life. The southwest region surrounding Perth boasts the greatest plant diversity with ancient landscapes supporting some of the world’s botanical marvels.

Kings Park and Botanic Garden is one of Western Australia’s heritage icons with the Botanic Garden providing a gateway to Western Australia’s extraordinary flora. With over 400 hectares of botanic garden, bushland, recreational areas and playgrounds, Kings Park is globally significant.

Eucalyptus diversicolor (karri) forest	Lechenaultia macrantha	Rhodanthe display	Xanthorrhoea species

National Organising Committee

Kingsley Dixon, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia (Chair)
Deanna Rokich, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia
Grant Wardell-Johnson, University of Queensland, Queensland
Colin Yates, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia
Graeme Moss, Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia
Richard McLellan, WWF-Australia, Western Australia
Jason Stevens, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia
Annette Johnson, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia

and thanks to former Committee members
Michelle Carey, Greening Australia, Western Australia
Andrew Franks, Greening Australia, Western Australia
Dugald Close, The University of Tasmania, Tasmania (formerly of Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia)

Sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors whose valued contributions are helping to make this conference possible. If interested, you can view the sponsors website by clicking on the logo.

Should you be interested in sponsoring the Medecos XI Conference, please contact us by email at
medecosxi2007@bgpa.wa.gov.au

Current sponsors of the MEDECOS XI conference include:

	Department  of Environment and Conservation