Our April speaker at the Main Club, filmmaker Leighton de Barros, has his new two-part series going to air as follows: Rottnest Island Kingdom of the Quokka – World Premiere on Nat Geo Wild, Sundays from December 16 at 23 at 8:30pm AEST – Foxtel, Fetch, Sky NZ & the ...
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Book reviews and items of interest
Congratulations to Kevn Griffiths and Lesley Brooker, who on Friday 9 November received awards for their extensive and invaluable service to natural history. Member for Kalamunda Matthew Hughes MLA and Kevn Griffiths. Photo: Rob Sandri Kevn Griffiths, co-founder of the Darling Range Branch (DRB Nats), is a fungus leader and ...
Read more →SECOND EDITION Paperback ¦ July 2018 ¦ RRP $39.99 ¦ 168 pages ¦CSIRO Publishing I found this book extremely interesting and easy to read. Gisela catches your attention immediately as she relates a story of three rescued Tawny Frogmouths at a veterinary clinic, sitting on a perch right next to ...
Read more →Kings Park fungi researcher Dr Matt Barrett has asked to be contacted if anyone in WA comes across any fresh Stonemaker fungi: Laccocephalum species. Stonemakers are the amazing ‘fire fungi’ that pop up from a sclerotium, a tuber-like hyphal mass sometimes incorporating soil particles, hence the common name ‘stonemaker’. They ...
Read more →Paperback | August 2018 | RRP $ 49.99 | CSIRO Publishing 280 pages | 215 x 148 mm | Colour photographs, illustrations After many years in the making, the long-awaited first definitive guide to Australia’s native bees is here, authored by one of the most erudite of Australia’s native bee ...
Read more →Fungi Pocket guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi of South West Western Australia by Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Katrina Syme, published by the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club. Contains 91 common mushrooms and other fungi from South West WA with images from the region: Kalbarri to Ravensthorpe, including Perth and the south ...
Read more →Invitation to all Young Naturalists Club members New¦ The WA Museum invites YNC members to help us create a banksia mural which will be displayed in an exhibition in the New Museum for WA. Join us for a two-day program during the July school holidays where WA Museum scientists and ...
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 →The Shire of Mundaring ran their first ever Blue Sky Festival on Saturday 17 March 2018, and the DRB Nats had a stall there. It was a sustainability-focused festival based on themes such as biodiversity, renewable energy, waste management and saving our bushland. It was a local, non-commercial, low waste ...
Read more →Gilbert Marsh was a well-known Club member who died on 22 June last year. Born in England in November 1925, he came to Australia with his farming family when he was three years old. Despite some tough times, in 1946 Gilbert managed to graduate from UWA. In 1957 he was ...
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