17/01/2026
https://youtu.be/At1bujsfjzo
我跟凯丽银桦真是有缘分。2018年我从上海回来悉尼，去KCNP步行，看到林中忽然冒出一朵牙刷一样的红花，被吸引过去拍了几张照片然后就匆匆忙忙追队友去了，我当时觉得前面一定还有，但前面再也没有。然后，疫情期间，我滞留悉尼，开始参加曼丽大坝的美人鱼池的生态修复志愿者活动，跟生态学家去调查附近的珍稀植物，才发现原来这朵花是极度濒危。我由此产生极大兴趣，终于把它写进我2021年出版的澳洲花鸟手帖卷一里，用的就是那次拍摄的照片。然后好像我大脑里的眼睛打开了，我总能发现凯丽银桦，当然也因为我住在北海岸，正是凯丽银桦的有限的栖息地。然后，2024年，为完成我在悉尼大学的环境科学硕士的第二年也是最后一年的学习，我参加一个由国家公园支持的保护项目，这个项目的目的是观测KCNP里小袋鼠对濒危植物的啃食情况，判定小袋鼠是否对这些植物的生存带来了威胁。巧不巧，凯丽银桦就是我负责观察的两种植物之一… … I seem to have a special connection with Grevillea caleyi. In 2018, when I came back to Sydney from Shanghai for a short stay, I went for a walk in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. In the middle of the bush, a bright red flower suddenly caught my eye—it looked just like a toothbrush. I stopped to take a few photos, then hurried on to catch up with the others. At the time, I thought I would surely see more ahead, but I never did. It wasn’t until the COVID years, when I was stuck in Sydney, that I truly learned what that flower was. I began volunteering in bush care at Mermaid Pools near Manly Dam, working with an ecologist to survey rare plants in the area. That’s when I discovered that the flower I had photographed years earlier belonged to a critically endangered species. That discovery sparked a deep interest. After that, it felt as if an eye in my mind had opened—I started noticing Grevillea caleyi everywhere. Of course, it helps that I live on the Northern Beaches, which happens to be within its very limited natural range. In 2021, I wrote about Grevillea caleyi in my book Stories of Australian Flowers and Birds (Vol. 1), using the very photos I had taken back in 2018. Then in 2024, during the second and final year of my Master of Environmental Science at the University of Sydney, I participated in a conservation project supported by the National Parks. The project focused on monitoring wallaby browsing on endangered plants in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, to assess whether wallabies pose a threat to their survival. And, as it turned out—by coincidence or perhaps not—Grevillea caleyi was one of the two species I was assigned to observe… # #澳洲原生植物 #悉尼大学 #悉尼生活 #国家公园 NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Gardening Australia
极度濒危的凯丽银桦基本上只生长在悉尼北边的国家公园里。谁会想到国家公园里同样被保护的小袋鼠竟然成了她的天敌。The critically endangered Grevillea caleyi grows only in national parks and a few suburbs north of Sydn...
