Northern Suburbs Branch, 21 April 2026 Sarah Visser’s (ECU award winner) presentation exploded the myth that deserts are boring, uninhabitable wastelands. The Great Victoria Desert (GVD) is Australia’s largest desert, covering approximately 35 million hectares across both WA and SA. It is characterised by sand dunes, spinifex grasslands, salt-lake systems ...
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Treasurer 2024-
Vice-President 2017-23
Councillor 2009-13, 2015-16
Hon. Secretary 2014
All Branches, 27 April – 3 May 2026 The 2026 Notley Late Easter Camp was held between Monday, 27 April and Sunday, 3 May. The location was split between Fitzgerald River National Park and Bremer Bay. However, as our excursion included a visit to the Lake Magenta Nature Reserve on ...
Read more →KRM Branch, 20 April 2026 The April Meeting featured a Members’ Night theme, and several members shared photos of recent sightings. The first to present was Pauline Dilley, whose photos included some of a red mushroom with white lumps (Amanita muscaria?). There were also some Blue-banded Bees and a small ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 19 April 2026 The April Excursion was to Bibra Lake, and 10 members met at the car park on a fine morning. The lake had reasonable water levels for this time of year (thanks to the wet period in late March) and was supporting large numbers ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 2 May 2026 This excursion was a sell-out. Forty people booked in with a wait list. It’s clear that bird watching is becoming increasingly popular. On the day, even though only two-thirds of attendees turned up, we still needed to divide the group into two. Half went ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 4 April 2026 Nestled on a 41-acre site in Western Australia, the Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre serves as a critical sanctuary for species teetering on the edge of survival. During a recent visit with the Darling Range Branch of the WA Naturalists Club, the urgent reality ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 6 February 2026 Belinda, our guest speaker, was up first with her very interesting talk on Fish with Stripes. Many of the fish mentioned were Red Morwong, Striped, Banded Sweep, Old Wife, Striped Trumpeter, Sea Trumpeter, Red-Striped Cardinalfish, Crested Morwong, Western Talma, Zebra Fish, Silver Banded ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 February 2026 The February Excursion was to Point Peron in Rockingham. Nine members attended on a beautiful morning with perfect temperature for our walk. We started from the car park closest to the school camp and made our way along the seaside footpath, with views ...
Read more →The Club seeks a new editor for the journal, The Western Australian Naturalist. Duties include: The Honourable Editor also has a seat on the Club Council. We prefer someone with prior experience editing academic journals or a similar experience Send your cards and letters to: info@wanaturalists.org.au editor@wanaturalists.org.au
Read more →Prof. Byron Lamont, presenter of last year’s Serventy Lecture, is offering a five-week course, loosely based on the lecture, through the Mature Adults Learning Association. He takes you through the development of the concepts of natural history, environment, ecology, ecosystem, and symbiosis as background to the topic. Then he discusses ...
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