Impact of Botanic Gardens of Sydney partnerships
Discover how our corporate partners contribute to critical conservation efforts and become inspired by the ways your organisation can help positively impact our planet.
Explore the impact of our corporate partnerships as they collaborate with Botanic Gardens of Sydney on projects that address critical environmental challenges. Your organisation can make a difference too!
Together with MetLife Australia, we promote reconciliation with First Nations communities through Indigenous cultural training.
Our partnership with MetLife focusses on First Nation reconciliation, corporate volunteering and tree planting, Community Greening and digitising our National Herbarium of NSW.
As part of MetLife’s Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), MetLife aims to build understanding, demonstrate respect, and promote reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. MetLife has partnered with Botanic Gardens of Sydney to help put these commitments into action by educating their employees through Indigenous cultural training facilitated by our First Nations team.
Together, we're promoting the journey towards reconciliation by:
- Botanic Gardens of Sydney providing indigenous education tours and weaving workshops to encourage learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Recognising the history of our nation and these communities through Botanic Gardens of Sydney Cultural Awareness Training
- Botanic Gardens of Sydney First Nations colleagues attending frequent events at MetLife’s offices to educate employees through
Key partnership impacts
- Inspired by Botanic Gardens of Sydney training, MetLife is working with Indigenous recruiting organisations to address the lack of First Nations representation within its business. Botanic Gardens of Sydney also provided input from our First Nations colleagues on developing a more targeted impact for its next RAP
- Through our partnership, MetLife is gaining a deeper insight into our sustainability projects, encouraging employees to take ownership of their sustainability impact and volunteer in green environment activities. MetLife has been carbon neutral since 2016 and integrates sustainability best practices across its operations, including responsible investments, such as green buildings, renewable energy projects and affordable housing
- MetLife have been intrinsic in supporting the digitisation of the National Herbarium of NSW, sending 60 staff members to contribute to our digitisation project. This has helped us to collect over 1.7million samples in our Herbarium
- Our partnership with MetLife has provided a significant number of corporate volunteering sessions, where our horticulture experts teach MetLife staff essential conservation and practical skills to improve our environment. MetLife staff have planted over 300 trees at our Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan and almost 500 staff have completed our volunteering sessions at Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
- 180 MetLife staff have joined our Community Greening Sessions, a Botanic Gardens of Sydney program that empowers vulnerable people and communities to get involved in a community gardening project in their area. This program provides valuable health, training, economic and social benefits to disadvantaged communities across New South Wales
Transgrid gives back through their support of the Australian Institute of Botanical Science
From 2010, Transgrid have supported our Australian Institute of Botanical Science (AIBS) to support our ground-breaking scientific research. Transgrid initially sponsored the construction of the Australian PlantBank Seed Processing Room and since then, have supported the AIBS scientific project with the greatest need. Their continued funding enables our scientists to achieve global impact.
Key partnership impacts
- Preserve 72% of NSW threatened NSW plant species in our PlantBank
- Achieve 12,500 seed collections in our Australian PlantBank to prevent their extinction
- Operate our Rainforest Seed Conservation Project to safeguard vulnerable rainforest species from extinction; one football field of rainforest is lost every second of every day
- Transgrid Family Days engage employees and their families to make a difference, including helping to extend the Cumberland Plain Woodland Ecological Community, working on our African Olive Control Program, and planting over 230 new grasses at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
- In February 2020, Transgrid launched its second Reconciliation Action Plan at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, attended by over 50 Indigenous community members and corporate and government stakeholders
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