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 ...
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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 ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 May 2025 We joined the Friends of Star Swamp for a night walk on a calm and clear 90-minute stroll around Star Swamp. Early heavy rain had left that wonderful bush smell. Approximately 25 people from both groups enjoyed the outing, and many conversations were held ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 24 May 2025 Though we had early misgivings about the weather – cold start, chance of rain – the morning turned out to be perfect for birdwatching in this beautiful wetland reserve in High Wycombe. Our party consisted of nine members from the DRB and Main Club ...
Read more →Main Club 31 May 2025 The WA Shipwrecks Museum is the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere. It features hundreds of relics from ships wrecked along Western Australia’s treacherous coastline, yielding a fascinating collection of artefacts that provides a glimpse into 17th- to 19th-century maritime life. The preservation ...
Read more →Advance Notice, 23-29 August The Club has been invited to visit the property of Bush Blocks Guardians in Westonia adjacent to Chiddarcooping Nature Reserve (western side) (https://bushblocksguardians.org.au/). There are a wide variety of landscapes: large granite outcrops and slabs with shallow gnammas, large tors and a very unique and extensive mini ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 April 2025. Much to our relief, the BOM radar showed that the forecasted heavy rain had passed by the time seven of us climbed the stairs to the lookout from which we had views seaward, across Marmion Marine Park and landward, across the foreshore reserve which ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 15 April 2025 There is plenty of information around for those that think they maybe affected. That’s what I thought anyway. A conversation with our branch treasurer about DPIRD and the local council visiting her garden a couple of times to investigate, made me aware of ...
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