The arboretum was closed to the public in October last year and is being ‘vacated in preparation for divestment’
-owned haven to rare species from the nearby wet tropics, Cape York, the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Northern Territory.
CSIRO closed public access to the site in October last year, alarming an Atherton-based botanist, Gemma Horner, who thought it was important the community knew what was going on behind closed doors. “As members of the local community, we should be concerned about conserving this site for both present and future generations,” she says.
“The removal of the arboretum would be a great loss to the region, not only of 50 years of research, education and effort in establishing a diverse variety of tropical species by some of the region’s esteemed botanists and scientists, but also the loss of a part of Australia’s tropical rainforest research history.”Photograph: Bronwen ScottRebel Warren, a former CSIRO technician who worked at the site for two decades before being made redundant, is also calling for the arboretum to be preserved.
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