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Celebrate in Adelaide Botanic Garden each June!

Since 1996, Adelaide Botanic Garden has educated tens of thousands of SA school students at its annual World Environment Day celebration.

World Environment Day is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment.

We hope to be back in 2022 with a World Environment Day celebration!

Check out the video below to see the types of activities enjoyed by students and teachers on the day.

Protecting South Australia's threatened plants from extinction

Video footage from 2018.

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World Ocean Day is an annual celebration held on 8 June which unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our blue planet. In our latest blog, State Herbarium's Jem Barratt takes a deep dive into how its scientific work focusing on seagrasses and seaweed helps with the restoration and preservation of our ocean ecosystems.