Corporate Body

Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) (1966 - )

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

From
1966
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Functions
Collection management and Industrial or scientific research
Alternative Names
  • ANWC (Acronym)
Website
https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/collections/anwc
Location
GPO Box 284, Canberra, Australian National Territory 2601

Summary

Established by the CSIRO in 1966, the Australian National Wildlife Collection was gazetted by the Federal Government in 1976. The Collection has been under the control of several CSIRO Divisions, in 2002 it was part of Sustainable Ecosystems.

From their Web site, April 2002: "The primary goal of the Australia National Wildlife Collection is the provision of a national reference record of Australia's vertebrate fauna: its mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians."

In 2014 the Australian National Wildlife Collection joined other CSIRO natural history collections as part of the National Research Collections Australia.

Related People

Published resources

Edited Books

  • Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A. eds, Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology (Cambridge (Mass.) : Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), 481 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Day, M.F.C. et al., 'The Biological Collections in CSIRO: a National Heritage', Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (1) (2004), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR04002. Details
  • Giese, Diana, 'The Australian National Wildlife Collection', National Library of Australia News (2002), 19-21. Details

Resources

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