Northern Suburbs Branch, 27 May 2026 Our May excursion to Galup (formerly known as Lake Monger) to inspect trees infected with Polyphagous Shothole Borer (PSHB) was a follow-up to our April 2025 talk. Since that time, the national approach followed by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) ...
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Northern Suburbs Branch, 21 April 2026 Sarah Visser’s (ECU award winner) presentation exploded the myth that deserts are boring, uninhabitable wastelands. The Great Victoria Desert (GVD) is Australia’s largest desert, covering approximately 35 million hectares across both WA and SA. It is characterised by sand dunes, spinifex grasslands, salt-lake systems ...
Read more →All Branches, 27 April – 3 May 2026 The 2026 Notley Late Easter Camp was held between Monday, 27 April and Sunday, 3 May. The location was split between Fitzgerald River National Park and Bremer Bay. However, as our excursion included a visit to the Lake Magenta Nature Reserve on ...
Read more →KRM Branch, 20 April 2026 The April Meeting featured a Members’ Night theme, and several members shared photos of recent sightings. The first to present was Pauline Dilley, whose photos included some of a red mushroom with white lumps (Amanita muscaria?). There were also some Blue-banded Bees and a small ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 19 April 2026 The April Excursion was to Bibra Lake, and 10 members met at the car park on a fine morning. The lake had reasonable water levels for this time of year (thanks to the wet period in late March) and was supporting large numbers ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 2 May 2026 This excursion was a sell-out. Forty people booked in with a wait list. It’s clear that bird watching is becoming increasingly popular. On the day, even though only two-thirds of attendees turned up, we still needed to divide the group into two. Half went ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 4 April 2026 Nestled on a 41-acre site in Western Australia, the Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre serves as a critical sanctuary for species teetering on the edge of survival. During a recent visit with the Darling Range Branch of the WA Naturalists Club, the urgent reality ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 6 February 2026 Belinda, our guest speaker, was up first with her very interesting talk on Fish with Stripes. Many of the fish mentioned were Red Morwong, Striped, Banded Sweep, Old Wife, Striped Trumpeter, Sea Trumpeter, Red-Striped Cardinalfish, Crested Morwong, Western Talma, Zebra Fish, Silver Banded ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22 February 2026 The February Excursion was to Point Peron in Rockingham. Nine members attended on a beautiful morning with perfect temperature for our walk. We started from the car park closest to the school camp and made our way along the seaside footpath, with views ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, 14 February 2026 Alex George AM, a well-known botanist, was invited to DRB to share his observations of unexpected and widespread colour changes and growth patterns in Australian native plants, particularly shrubs and trees in bushland environments during autumn. These changes were observed during periods of unusual ...
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