WA Department of Parks and Wildlife, Threatened Flora Seed Centre

The Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife's Threatened Flora Seed Centre was established in 1992 to safeguard genetically representative seed collections of the State's conservation-listed flora. This insurance policy complements other strategies designed to protect Western Australia's floral diversity, including use of these seeds in recovery actions such as threatened species reintroduction.

The Centre is principally involved in seed collection and long-term storage, including research into germination biology, and seed quality, seed longevity and seed ecology. The Centre is located in the department's Science Division, Flora Conservation and Herbarium Program in Perth which is responsible for a wide range of complementary plant conservation research including: - Plant reintroduction - Genetic studies into seed sourcing, sampling and the viability of plant populations - Threat susceptibility studies, including disease, salinity and climate change - Taxonomy Since 1992 the Centre has successfully stored seeds from an estimated 3638 collections.