Clean, clear water brusquely babbling, two-note Pardalotes singing overhead from a tiny spout in an Eucalyptus wandoo, Grevillea pilulifera and Trimalium ledifolium layering understory in dense cream blossom, along with the warmth of a winter sun illuminating the Jarrah/Marri/Wandoo woodland at the Schipp Road entrance of Kalamunda National Park delighted ...
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Treasurer 2024-
Vice-President 2017-23
Councillor 2009-13, 2015-16
Hon. Secretary 2014
Lauren Peel, a UWA Zoology graduate and shark enthusiast, presented an interesting talk on sharks at the meeting held on 9th August. Her talk introduced us to some aspects of sharks and their behaviour gained from her experiences participating in white shark research work based in Mossel Bay, South Africa. ...
Read more →We recently received a message from Gill Ainsworth to let us know about a short animated film and webpage she has created about Baudin’s and Carnaby’s Cockatoos, called ‘A Tale of Two Cockatoos’. I recommend you check it out.
Read more →The Ellis Brook Valley Reserve covers a scenic area and forms part of the western scarp of the Darling Plateau. The Reserve is part of the Banyowla Regional Park, named after a Nyoongar elder. Ellis Brook is named after Captain T. Ellis, a police superintendent of the 1830s. A City ...
Read more →Free mobile device app helps distinguish between cane toads and native frogs Resource for students, travellers, truck drivers and the community West Australians can now use a mobile device app to distinguish between poisonous cane toads and harmless native frogs of the Kimberley. The State’s first Cane Toad App has ...
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Read more →Searching for fungi near log at Nanga Bushcamp Twenty one Naturalists converged on the area on Friday 15 June. The weather had been fairly wet for the previous week. Our journey down to Nanga through a swathe of toppled branches and damaged forest trees showed us just how severe the previous ...
Read more →The Margaret River Conservation Farming Club would like to thank Naturalists’ Club member who helped us re-establish our six pit-trap fauna survey lines at Glenbourne. This has laid the way for the resumption of our trapping on 12-14th October after some years of inaction. We have almost a decade of ...
Read more →Fungi group is organising a Fungi weekend at Dwellingup -15-17 June 2012 at Nanga Bushcamp. Neale Bougher and the Fungi leaders from the Perth Urban Bushland fungi project will be conducting a Fungi weekend at Nanga bushcamp near Dwellingup. Activities will include morning forays searching for fungi in the area ...
Read more →After the AGM, Anne Brearley gave us an interesting talk about Norfolk Island, which she visited in 2011. The tall pines planted at Cottesloe are our connection with this small Pacific island. The first Norfolk Island Pines in Cottesloe were probably the ones planted in John Street in 1917 by ...
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