Environment Minister Robyn Parker, said the Biome, which will stunningly reflect the defined climate and plants and animals of three different regions, including Australia’s Top End and New Guinea’s cloud forests, will be constructed on the site of the closed Sydney Tropical Centre.
“Biome’s role is to inspire a new generation of advocates for the environment by offering a unique and inspiring experience at the Botanic Garden,” Ms Parker said today at the site of the new centre.
“Inside futuristic biomes, visitors will be given a multi-sensory experience complete with plants, organic sounds, smells, insects, water and landscapes of Australia’s Top End, Malesia’s* tropical lowland rainforests and New Guinea’s cloud forests.
“Biome will be a terrific place for parents to take their children for an engaging, educational and fun filled adventure that has a far deeper purpose than simply entertainment.
“Families would have to tackle three holidays in separate regions to experience what will be created in Biome. For children the Biomes will showcase the bizarre to the beautiful, the micro to the majestic – a place to delight and inspire both kids and adults.
“For the school curriculum visitor, Biome will be a place where education programs are delivered in a contemporary manner and closely aligned to learning programs. Schools will connect via internet and multi-media so children in remote areas will not be left out.”
Construction of the Biome, which is expected to attract an extra 70,000 visitors a year to the Royal Botanic Garden, will start at the end of the year and be completed by mid-2015.
Ms Parker said the Biome experience, which is partly funded with a $16.7 million NSW Government grant, will educate visitors about the inter-relationship of plants and the land and people, including the celebration and interpretation of Aboriginal culture.
“Biome will include billabongs complete with small birds, lizards and insects and visitors will see the rhizosophere and earth’s substratum-bedrock, subsoil, roots, topsoil, insects and humus layers in profile,” Ms Parker said.
“As well, there will be a breathtaking canopy walk that takes visitors from inside the Biome outside amongst treetops in the Royal Botanic Garden.”
* The biogeographic region of Malesia encompasses the area between Thailand and the Solomon Islands, including Indonesia, The Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, Singapore and Malaysia.
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