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 ...

The topic for the 2013 Serventy Memorial Lecture will be “Bird pollination of eucalypts on old landscapes: a new perspective” by Professor Steven Hopper, Winthrop Professor of Biodiversity CENRM (UWA Albany) and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia. A common experience for most Australian naturalists is to witness birds feeding on ...

Have you seen a black cockatoo with a weird coloured tail? Well, we can assure you that you haven’t been seeing things. Christine Groom is studying the movements of Carnaby’s cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain and has coloured the white panels of the tail feathers of her study birds. ...

Club Members can download a copy of the February 2013 edition of the Naturalist News in both PDF and Kindle formats from the Members page. We would be very interested in hearing from any members who use the Kindle version of the newsletter – if that's you, please leave a ...

We are mainly members of the WA Naturalists Club but would welcome others interested in natural history in Western Australia. Any topic that relates to fauna, flora or ecosystems in WA is welcome. This group is intended be a way to discuss topics, ask questions, announce events, etc. Only polite, ...

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 ...

At the last AGM, the Council informed all members that membership fees had to increase due to increasing costs of running the Club, many of which were in line with the CPI. However, to increase our efficiency, to be able to include members’ photos in a colourful form and help ...

The fourth photo competition and exhibition of Australian Fungi and Slime moulds will be held on 25 and 26 August at the Henderson Environmental Centre, Star Swamp in North Beach. The following categories will be open for submission of art work: Fungi/Slime moulds in their natural habitat; Macro / Detail; ...

Perth Urban Bushland Fungi Project update and Club fungi events Despite many funding applications over the last few years and recent months, unfortunately, the Perth Urban Bushland Fungi project (PUBF) has come to the position where there are no funds to operate it over the 2012 fungi season. This means ...