The Council of the club wishes to advise members that Jacqui Gregson has passed away after a long period of illness on 24 July 2025.Our condolences to Mike from the Council. Funeral Details 3:00 pm Thursday 07 August 2025 at West Chapel – Fremantle Cemetery Carrington St. Palmyra
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Treasurer 2024-
Vice-President 2017-23
Councillor 2009-13, 2015-16
Hon. Secretary 2014
Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 June 2025 The KRMB field outing for June was to Sullivan Rock. After a wet week that lasted well into Saturday, it was great to see 13 members turn up for the walk on an overcast Sunday morning with some rain clouds threatening to provide ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 25 June 2025 Golly, it was cold this morning! A comment was made by everyone arriving at Donelly Park, Wanneroo, the meeting point for our walk around the northeast corner of Lake Joondalup, part of Yellagonga Regional Park. The temperature in Perth when most people left home ...
Read more →DRB Nats, 11 July 2025 “BoorYul-Bar-Bilya”, in the Noongar language, means, more or less, “magic river”, a concept that includes the beauty, peace, tranquillity, and life of a pristine river. In a lively presentation to the members of the DRB, Francesca Flynn described the work of the BoorYul-Bar-Bilya programme, which ...
Read more →In June this year the Club was prompted by Fungimap to add its name to a letter to the relevant federal government ministers, urging them to ensure that Australia signs on the Fungal Conservation Pledge (FCP). Many scientists see it as a critical mechanism in achieving the goals and targets ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 19 May 2025 KRMB member Daniel Heald was the speaker for the May general meeting. He delivered a talk on Insects and Medicine, as outlined in the following summary provided by Daniel. Insects in Medicine The use of insects as medical treatments goes back to before ...
Read more →Biotic Interactions – The Essence of Nature Conservation 16 April 2025 There was a good turnout for this year’s Serventy Memorial Lecture (SML), including many non-members. Don Poynton began by talking about the WA Naturalists’ Club, its origins in 1924 with the Serventy family, our branches, our major projects and ...
Read more →Main Club, 6 June 2025 The enthusiasm of our speaker, Thilo Krueger, demonstrated how botany can be an intriguing and exciting subject, one that we can all become involved in through Citizen Science. Thilo is in the final year of his PhD at Curtin University. His photos of sundews exemplified ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 21 May 2025 Jeremy Wilson is the newly appointed Curator of Arachnids and Myriapods at the WA Museum. Jeremy started his presentation by showing a slide of the three groups in the order Araneae. The suborder Opisthothelae comprises two families: the Araneomorphae, which have more advanced spinnerets, ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 25 May 2025 Initially planned for a walk at Lake Claremont, a late change saw us visit the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands instead due to advice that Lake Claremont was almost dry with few wetland birds present. A group of nine members attended the walk on an ...
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