Whole Club, 13 July 2024 100 members and guests gathered to share in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Club. Displays of the 50th anniversary of Tomato Lake clearing, and pictures of club history were shown as guests enjoyed pre-lunch drinks. Mike and Mandy Bamford were tasked with keeping everything on track as ...
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New Zealand South Island Wildlife & Wilderness 15-Day Accommodated Tour – Departs Nelson 7 January 2025 – Max 12 participants Discover Te Wai Pounamu (NZ’s South Island), as we take you away from the population centres and tourist ‘honey pots’ to lesser known but equally spectacular destinations. One day you’re ...
Read more →WHERE ARE ALL THE CHRISTMAS BEETLES?By Suzanne HoughtonHardback | November 2023 | $24.99ISBN: 9781486317905 | 32 pages | 250 x 250 mmPublisher: CSIRO PublishingColour illustrationsePDF | November 2023ISBN: 9781486317912Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers This beautifully illustrated children’s book encourages kids to talk about the smaller creatures in the bush. Written ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 23 June 2024 The June field excursion was to Paganoni Reserve, primarily focusing on Fungi. An excellent turnout of 34 members and guests met at the power line entrance as a fine drizzle started to fall, but it soon blew over, and the remainder of the ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch meeting, 17 June 2024 Daniel Heald was the speaker for our June meeting. He gave a presentation on fungi, discussing around 30 fungi to describe fungal diversity in the environment. Some estimates put the number of species of fungi in the 2.2 to 3.8 million range, ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, GOLLY Walk – 26 June 2024 Sharon McArthur from Friends of Hillarys-Kallaroo Foreshore joined eight NSB members for a walk along the beach area at Whitfords Nodes. The weather was against us, but we wandered along the beachfront between showers and viewed the local osprey that has ...
Read more →Main Club – 5 July 2024 Our speaker, Julie Fielder, is a mycologist and botanist who has worked with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), investigating the effects of logging and burning in our forests. She is part of a team working on a book about fungal ecology ...
Read more →… a story by Dom Serventy Dr Dom Serventy (1904-1988) was a founding member of the WA Naturalists’ Club. The following article is a story by Dr Dom Serventy that first appeared in the Naturalist News, June 1974, for the 50th anniversary celebrations and titled “Field Trips 50 Years Ago”. ...
Read more →South West National Parks 13-Day Accommodated Tour – Departs Perth 12 October 2024 – Max 12 participants Western Australia’s beautiful South West region is one of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Nearly 80% of the plant species in the SW are found nowhere else on Earth, making the area exceptionally ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 21 April 2024 The April field excursion was to Goegrup Lake on the Serpentine River at Greenfields in Mandurah. A small group of nine members met at the Riverside Gardens car park on a fine autumn morning for the walk. Many others were also enjoying the ...
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