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.
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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
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1461538. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 10 April 2002, Last modified: 5 March 2024