Frances (Fran) Bodkin (born 1937) is an Australian botanist and

Dharawal The Dharawal people, also spelt Tharawal and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Dharawal language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, ...

elder. She is the author of ''Encyclopaedia Botanica: The Essential Reference Guide to Native and Exotic Plants in Australia'' (1986). In the 1970s she helped establish the

Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a botanical garden located in a hilly area of the southwestern Sydney suburb of , between Campbelltown and Camden, New South Wales. It is the largest botanical garden in Australia, specializing in ...

near Sydney at a former meeting site of Indigenous people. In 2017 Bodkin received a UWS Community Award and in 2019 she was nominated for a

Landcare Australia Landcare Australia is the name for a community not-for-profit organisation which involves local groups of volunteers repairing the natural environment. Originally projects focused on agricultural farmland. The idea was that farmers, conservati ...

land management award.

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