Australian National Botanic Gardens   Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research

Facts & Figures

July 2007

Contacting us:

Australian National Botanic Gardens

ANBG Postal Address:

GPO Box 1777 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

ANBG Street Address:

Clunies Ross Street, ACTON, ACT, AUSTRALIA

ANBG Telephone: (02) 6250-9450
ANBG Facsimilie: (02) 6250-9599
ANBG Email: email@anbg.gov.au

Friends of the ANBG: (02) 6250-9548
Café (Hudsons at the Gardens): (02) 6248-9680 Email: hudsonscatering@bigpond.com
Shop (The Botanical Bookshop): (02) 6257-3302 Email: sales@botanicalbookshop.com.au

ANBG staff telephone list

ANBG Website: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Australian National Herbarium

CPBR Postal Address:

GPO Box 1600 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

CPBR Telephone: (02) 6246-5108
CPBR Facsimilie: (02) 6246-5249

CPBR staff telephone list

CPBR Email: cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au
CPBR Website: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/

ANBG Mission:

To grow, study and promote Australian plants (Mission Statement)

ANBG Opening Hours

• Gardens: 8.30am – 5.00pm daily (extended to 6 pm weekdays and 8 pm weekends in January; closed 25 December)
• Public Glasshouse – 10am to 3pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Visitor Centre – 9.00am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Bookshop – 9.30am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Café: 8.30am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 December)

Total area	90ha
Developed Area	40ha
Latitude	35 ° 6' South
Longitude	149 ° 6' East
Altitude	571-677 metres
Rainfall	664 mm (details since 1968) (2005 info)
First planting	1949
Officially opened	20 Oct 1970

Executive Staff:

Statistics:

ANBG Visitors

2006-2007 financial year

• Visitor numbers to the Gardens for the 2006-2007 financial year were: 509,325  (last f-year 464,800)
• Visitor numbers to the Visitor Centre for the 2006-2007 financial year: 122,762

2007 calendar year

• Gardens: 508,895
• Visitor Centre: 113,166
• [month by month visitor statistics DEWAH access only]

Friends led walks

Friends' Guided Tours financial year 2006-2007

• Visitors participating in daily walks led by the Friends Volunteer Guides: 2,899
• Participants in booked tour groups led by the Friends Volunteer Guides: 278

ANBG Education Service Statistics

School groups for 2006-07 financial year: 309
Students for 2006-07 financial year: 12,4145

Calendar Year	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
JANUARY	13 groups 1,333 participants	14 groups 3,307 participants	2 groups 3,034 participants	14 groups 5,224 participants	22 groups 5425 participants	9 groups 4320 participants
FEBRUARY	4 groups 144 participants	4 groups 91 participants	13 groups 598 participants	5 groups 129 participants	10 groups 198 participants	6 groups 167 participants
MARCH	22 groups 1,847 participants	22 groups 971 participants	15 groups 774 participants	23 groups 1,029 participants	19 groups 701 participants	17 groups 686 participants
APRIL	12 groups 857 participants	14 groups 717 participants	7 groups 381 participants	22 groups 930 participants	21 groups 677 participants	6 groups 257 participants
MAY	26 groups 1,054 participants	55 groups 2,933 participants	29 groups 1,358 participants	34 groups 2,142 participants	32 groups 1320 participants	29 groups 1422 participants
JUNE	21 groups 1,000 participants	32 groups 1,495 participants	23 groups 1,130 participants	18 groups 1,037 participants	17 groups 940 participants	26 groups 1208 participants
JULY	8 groups 334 participants	3 groups 71 participants	25 groups 1,223 participants	17 groups 821 participants	19 groups 603 participants
AUGUST	23 groups 1,042 participants	34 groups 2,018 participants	23 groups 736 participants	33 groups 1,641 participants	30 groups 1272 participants
SEPTEMBER	21 groups 1,190 participants	46 groups 1,929 participants	26 groups 1,118 participants	45 groups 1,958 participants	54 groups 2478 participants
OCTOBER	26 groups 834 participants	25 groups 1,136 participants	27 groups 1,095 participants	31 groups 1,357 participants	35 groups 1254 participants
NOVEMBER	28 Groups 1221 Participants	38 groups 1,988 participants	46 groups 2,973 participants	38 groups 2,401 participants	55 groups 2428 participants
DECEMBER	7 Groups 363 Participants	17 groups 778 participants	12 groups 569 participants	11 groups 587 participants	23 groups 1059 participants
TOTAL GROUPS PARTICIPANTS	211 groups 11,189 participants	312 groups 17,614 participants	248 groups 14,989 participants	291 groups 14,267 participants	337 groups 18355 participants

ANBG Living Collections (July 2007)

Planted in 2006-2007: 12,478 plants

	Number of taxa	Number of specimens
Total	6,673	90,506
Open ground (plantings)	5,401	77,670
Controlled Environment Glasshouses, poly-house, etc	1,872	5,882
Under propagation (trays / pots)	609	3,248
Seed collections	2,895	-

Australian National Herbarium (July 2006)

CANB = Australian National Herbarium in Canberra
QRS = Australian National Herbarium at Atherton, North Queensland

Specimens at CANB and QRS, July 2007

GROUP	CANB Total no. Specimens	CANB Percent databased (%)	CANB Total no. Types	QRS Total no. Specimens	QRS Percent databased (%)	QRS Total no. Types	Total ANH (CANB & QRS) Total no. of specimens
Dicots	617,878	71.1	5,278	78,804	99.7	566	696,682
Monocots	156,836	89.3	1,386	16,510	51.5	26	173,345
Gymnosperms	3965	99.7	31	751	100.0	1	4,716
Pteridophytes	19,566	83.2	66	3,839	100.0	8	23,405
Mosses	94,890	61.0	170	0	0.0	0	94,890
Hepatics	28,265	52.8	91	0	0.0	0	28,265
Hornworts	368	100.0	1	0	0.0	0	368
Lichens	136,979	42.4	818	0	0.0	0	136,979
Fungi	11,042	100.0	83	0	0.0	0	11,042
Slime Moulds	150	96.0	0	0	0.0	0	150
Algae	6,969	5.7	1	0	0.0	0	6,969
TOTAL	1,076,907	69.0	7,925	99,904	91.8	601	1,176,811

 

CANB figures for the year July 2006– June 2007

Mounting - cryptogam		1,480
Mounting - vascular		14,819
Mounting - Total		16,299
New Accessions – vascular & cryptogam		18,253
Databasing additions		37,380

Herbarium Loans & Exchange transactions 1 July 2006– 30 June 2007

	No. of dispatches July 04 – June 05		TOTAL	No. of items July 04 – June 05		TOTAL
	CANB	QRS		CANB	QRS
Outloans sent from	43	1	44	2459	1489	3948
Outloans returned	45	5	50	2243	330	2573
Inloans received	34	0	34	434	0	434
Inloans returned	78	0	78	4175	0	4175
Inloans transferred	2	0	2	2	0	2
Exchange sent	60	0	60	11049	0	11049
Exchange received	88	1	89	5496	2	5498

Photograph Collection (12 months to March 2006)

Total number of 35mm slides: 43,160

Plant portraits and whole plant profiles (Feb 2006)	32,660
Number of distinct plant taxa in collection	9,971
Non-plant slides	10,500
Images on Photo-CD	8,180
Slides added to collection 2005-06	1,963
Slides digitized 2005-06	441
Digital images added 2005-06	2,000
Images donated under tax incentives scheme 2005-06	0
Images donated (not tax incentives scheme)	2,000
Slides borrowed 2005-06	64
Images used under licence 2005-06	1,196

Web site use (June 2007)

www.anbg.gov.au (includes ANBG and CPBR)
= www.cpbr.gov.au

ANBG web server and IBIS Database stats for year:
24 million hits deliver nearly a Terabyte of data in 18 million pages to 2.6 million client networks.
1.2 million of these requests are direct, database queries.

Web figures at June 2007

Number of HTML web pages linked from home page	15,428
Number of photographs (JPEGs) linked from home page	26,928
Total number of objects accessable from home page	46,429
HTML pages successfully accessed in June 2007	1,376,011
Average HTML pages successfully accessed per day, June 2007	45,868
Web requests made to IBIS database per day in June 2007	2,943
Average data transferred per day in June 2007	1.87 gigabytes

ANBG Library (2004/2005)

Totals
Number of book titles: 13,356
Number of serial titles: 650
Maps: 5000
Audio-visual titles: 236
Rare book collection: 350
Archive collection: 1256

Actions in 2004/2005
Items added to collection: 1376
Loans: 3510
Reference enquiries: 810

ANBG Finance (2005/2006)

• Total Operations Budget (salaries, purchasing, computers, depreciation etc.): $8,452,000
• Salaries/staffing: $4,403,000
• Capital Works: $1,125,000 (mostly our new $4m Nursery built over 2 financial years)
• Earned from licensees (Cafe and Bookshop), Parking fees, room and venue hire, weddings etc: $248,000

ANBG Staffing levels (May 2006)

• Herbarium, Orchid Res, Data Management, Plant Records, Photographs and website: 19.9
• Horticulture and Living Collections Management (includes Seedbank): 23.8
• Public Programs and Education: 9.8 (includes contract teacher)
• Infrastructure and Administration: 7.2 (includes Director)

Total Staff Allocation: 60.7