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Partnerships of various types are a critical element of the ANBG's ability to achieve the outcomes proposed in this management plan. We will continue to actively participate in existing successful partnerships and to establish new relationships, ensuring recognition of the ANBG for its world-class research and conservation programs.
Partnerships are designed to add value and to draw on the expertise of a diversity of people and organisations who come to an issue from different perspectives. The ANBG will ensure the partnerships in which we participate have a common vision and that they function under principles of effective communication and collaborative decision-making.
Partnerships help to create a path forward, allowing public and private entities to align objectives and resources to more efficiently advance towards common goals. We will develop further cross-sector partnerships with both the public and private sectors, including the business community, industry and scientific institutions. Research partnerships are most likely to be innovation based.
Much of the scientific research at the ANBG is undertaken in partnership with other organisations. In particular, the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) is an extremely successful long-term partnership with CSIRO, based on a formal legal agreement with pooled resources. In this joint venture the ANBG will continue to cooperatively manage the Australian National Herbarium and to expand our scientific program conducting novel research into the taxonomy, systematics and conservation ecology of Australia's plant diversity.
Enduring partnerships operating with clearly agreed cooperative arrangements, such as CANBR, provide confidence and incentive for others to join and to contribute their expertise, particularly in pursuit of a shared research and development objective. In ensuring the Australian National Herbarium is able to adopt modern collection management practices and to manage and make accessible well-curated collections, the ANBG and CANBR will work with industry to investigate the application of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Other partnerships will focus on continuing to build a rigorous conservation-focused research program that informs direct management actions. We will bring together interested parties with knowledge, skills and expertise to partner with ANBG staff addressing the many issues impacting Australian biodiversity. These partnerships will be both formal, with defined agreements, and more informal in nature, such as researchers and conservationists opportunistically collaborating and sharing knowledge to enhance our understanding of the biology and ecology of native plants or particular threatened species.
The ANBG will build on its reputation to deliver results with our conservation partners, and will invest in creating and maintaining effective research partnerships with diverse stakeholders. Conservation actions will often be addressed in consultation and partnership with other botanic gardens, local Indigenous custodians, land managers and other stakeholders.

In the case of critical ex situ plant conservation activities,