Botanic Garden Xtension


The Botanic Garden Xtension will bring a long list of extraordinary benefits to the city of Sydney, the state and the country. It is a unique opportunity to transform the city's CBD waterfront into an interdependent multispecies habitat. This will be a world first and place Australia at the forefront of international Future Urban Design Ecology.

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A new documentary video presents a glimpse into the process of the REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab - held in Sydney in November 2010. The outcome is called the Botanic Garden Xtension.

This short film firstly lays out an seemingly intractable problem of managing flying foxes in a big city like Sydney. In Australia flying foxes are yet another threatened species - and yet one which is ecologically essential because of their critical pollination and seed spreading services. These flying foxes (predominantly the grey headed species) congregate in large numbers to sleep during the day in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Through the inadvertent mechanical damage caused by large numbers of foxes, they are damaging the heritage trees there.

View the documentary online here