Darling Range Branch Eighteen enthusiastic naturalists joined the fourth survey of the bush block at Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott in April 2018. The visitors included two local families and the Deputy Principal of the nearby school, which was encouraging. This bush is where the scarp and flats intersect. We are surveying ...
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Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch The speaker for our April meeting was KRMB member Daniel Heald, on the topic of the use of citizen science webbased platforms to improve our knowledge of invertebrates. His talk was supported by images downloaded from some of the websites. Numerous citizen science websites have been ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Due to health issues it had been eight months since Brice Wells (OAM) had made a presentation but from the beginning it was obvious he had not lost his passion for birds, nor lost his communication skills. Brice opened with his only slide containing words: “On the ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Dr Mark Brundrett asked to delay his presentation until March so that he could utilise material from a very recent paper he co-authored entitled, Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal symbioses and global host plant diversity1. Mark split his presentation into four parts, commencing with an overview of Australia’s ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch Our guest speaker for the night, Johnny Prefumo, drove all the way up from Bunbury to give a packed Jorgensen Park Pavilion a first-rate talk on frogs for our April DRB meeting. Everyone loved it! This was far more than a survey of batrachian taxonomy in the ...
Read more →Main Club Our speaker was Professor Byron Lamont, an expert on the adaptations of Mediterranean floras, especially those in south-west Australia. His special interests within that field are the evolution of the Proteaceae or Banksia family and the role of fire in the evolution of plants. He studied Agricultural Science ...
Read more →SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018 Dr Noel Nannup, is a respected Aboriginal Elder, story-teller and cultural guide. He is a heritage consultant, has been named NAIDOC Male Elder of the Year, and is ECU’s Elder in Residence. He began with a Welcome to Country, in which he ushered the bad spirits ...
Read more →The Critically Endangered Western Swamp Tortoise is the subject of the recently published book, Westy: the Western Swamp Tortoise by Cathy Levett. A bright, colourful children’s book with simple but engaging text, Westy is the outcome of the author’s involvement with the Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise group. Chair ...
Read more →Eight members plus one visitor assembled at the main car park at the lake on March 25: a grey morning with rain about. Our leader for the day was Otto Mueller, who suggested that we should have a quick look out on the lake from the small observation platform at ...
Read more →Five members and a visitor who had travelled all the way from Beaconsfield spent the morning exploring the beach and cliffs north of Trigg Island. Unfortunately, by the time we returned from this foray the wind had swung to the southwest. So despite the shelter of the island the sea ...
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