For the past 50 years, ecologist and botanist, Jamie Kirkpatrick has been returning to study sites on The Queens Domain — monitoring how the park has been bursting back to biodiverse life after two centuries of hard use.
The Queens Domain, or The Domain as Hobartians call it, contains a nationally significant grassland and is home to endangered species — just a half-hour stroll from the Hobart CBD.
"Grasslands in south-eastern Australia have been almost totally wiped out because they happen to be on the best soils," says Professor Kirkpatrick, of the University of Tasmania.
