The route 903 bus has been operating since 2020 providing free daily public transport connectivity between Ginninderry and Kippax with schools, shops and other services as well as access to the broader Transport Canberra network. The poster explores usage and feedback captured data since service’s inception in 2020 to provide preliminary findings into how this service has helped support local mobility.

Public art projects must recognise place, which includes First Nations connections, community, heritage, sustainability, ecology and diversity.
This research analysis of precedents by urban developers, councils, place-makers and interpretation specialists highlights the need for a unique approach for Ginninderry’s Strategic Framework: Art in PublicSpace’.

Unique in this strategy is the potential simultaneous co-development of public art projects with designs of public places. This strategy first questions the boundaries of public art’, and then presents an invitation for diverse artists to engage with diverse places, methods and outcomes.

Did you know that artificial grass can be over 10 degrees hotter than real grass in the middle of summer? Did you know that artificial turf is as hot as dark gravel? Materials and landscaping make a huge difference to the comfort and temperature of your home and your neighbourhood. Researcher Jessica Stewart as she talks about how Ginninderry is combating the urban heat island effect.

ACT for Bees and Other Pollinators is an education and advocacy group working in partnership with relevant industry, government and community groups to ensure pollinators thrive in the ACT. Collaboration with Ginninderry Pollinator corridors began in 2015. Julie Armstrong is the founder and President of the organisation and was awarded the 2023 National Environmental Educator of the Year for her work in schools and early childhood settings about the importance of pollinators for food security, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. Julie was also an ACT finalist for the Australian of the Year 2024 Local Hero awards.

In May 2020, the Ginninderry Conservation Trust partnered with Greening Australia to create Natural Temperate Grassland and Pink-tailed Worm-lizard habitat in an area largely dominated by invasive species in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor. A vegetation monitoring program was set up with Friends of Grasslands in October of the same year, and monitoring has continued yearly by FOG volunteers and Trust staff. John Fitzgerald is a member of FOG and has been involved in this project from the beginning. Here he will present findings across all years of monitoring and the next steps in continuing this work.

You probably know what a wombat is. But have you ever seen one? A healthy one? Most Australians haven’t. But right here in the corridor, we have a population of wombats. They are elusive, nocturnal and live underground. It’s not easy to spot them! We have been working with the Conservation Trust to monitor these wombats, using cameras, drones and whatever technology we could use. And they have an interesting story to tell!

Introduced red foxes are highly invasive and cryptic predators that are pushing our native species to extinction and they are right here in the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor. This work focuses on a novel management tool for the non-lethal control of foxes. Through a series of adaptive studies, the Coexistence Conservation Lab is developing this tool that is hoped will be used by land managers in the Corridor and across Australia to more effectively manage this threat.

The Canberra Snake Tracking Project commenced in February 2021 as the first research study to explore the movement activity and habitat use of urban-adapted eastern brown snakes. A key driver of the project is to improve understanding of the ecology of this widely feared snake species and determine the welfare impacts of translocation: when snakes are forcibly moved from their home ranges to new environments as part of licensed catch and release programs. The Project has been tracking individuals in the Ginninderry area and using biological data to map population health, structure and dynamics. It has produced remarkable insight on the behaviours and lives of these enigmatic animals–and the pressures they endure. It is also informing and transforming public perceptions of snakes.

Urbanisation and suburbs growth around Canberra are at our doorstep. This presentation explores interesting findings during dam dewatering in Ginninderry and local dam residents, the Eastern long-necked turtle. It shows how the Ginninderry Conservation Trust has partnered with local developers to rescue local turtles and find them a new home in the Conservation corridor

This research will help us gain a greater understanding of key interactions, over space and time, between seven native and non-native mammalian herbivore grazers, including macropods, deer and cattle to better inform management strategies moving forward. This work focuses on the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor, ACT, which represents an ideal study system because it comprises a mosaic of habitat types including both pasture grass to be restored, and threatened ecosystems including natural temperate grassland, White Box-Yellow Box–Blakely’s Red Gum Woodland.

The Golden Sun Moth (Synemon plana) is a day-flying moth that was once common across much of southeastern Australia. However, it has become extinct from much of its former habitat, the Natural Temperate Grasslands, due to fragmentation and development. This project aims to reintroduce the Golden Sun Moth back into the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor by identifying key tactics and strategies that will lead to a self-sustaining population.

This research focuses on the genetics of the pink-tailed worm-lizard, a small threatened legless lizard, in the stronghold region of the Murrumbidgee-Molonglo River area. Genomic and translocation techniques were applied to help us understand this cryptic reptile and how we can manage populations across the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor and other grassland sites in the ACT.