Thirty Darling Range Branch members visited the areas around Kulin, Kondinin and Corrigin for four days in mid-October. Led by the energetic Kulin wildflower expert, Robin Campbell, we visited an impressive variety of places. Specific areas, such as the Corrigin Rifle Range, were ablaze with wildflowers including seven varieties of ...
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KRMB October Meeting Rockingham Regional Environmental Centre (Naragebup) has recently regained accreditation as a Marine Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre with October’s presenter Pauline Whitehead and a band of volunteers on hand to provide aid to any young turtles washed ashore on local beaches. Her talk provided details of the ...
Read more →October NSB Meeting Report Our October meeting gave members an opportunity to learn about three very different places that fellow members had recently visited for very different reasons. Cuba: Johanna Notley The lure of travelling to Cuba was set by a guest speaker Johanna had heard a couple of years ...
Read more →DRB November Meeting Members of the Darling Range Branch and visitors were given a treat at the November meeting when 10-year old Poppy Greenacre gave the “Kids’ talk”. The Kids’ talk has been on our program for two years and involves our younger members giving a 5-minute talk on an ...
Read more →November Meeting Report Our speaker was Nerida Wilson, a research scientist at the WA Museum. As head of the museum’s Molecular Systematics Unit, Nerida’s interest is global biological diversity and resolving evolutionary relationships between taxa. Sea slugs are of special interest to her, and she has been on seven expeditions ...
Read more →September 2019 KRM Branch We had a total of 10 participants for KRMB’s visit to the Dryandra Woodlands, which commenced on Friday 20th due to the cottages only being available on the Friday and Saturday nights. The weather forecast was for fine but cool days and cold nights. A group ...
Read more →GOLLY, thirteen might be unlucky for some, but for the thirteen members and visitors who joined us at Allen Park Bushland, Swanbourne it was just the opposite. We were very fortunate to have passionate and skilful guides, Joan and Rob Sharpe, as our leaders. Both are long time members of ...
Read more →Three members made presentations at the September meeting. First up was Chris Punter, who showed some photos that he’d taken during a recent trip to Broome. He had seen a nice variety of birdlife, including Great Bowerbird, Nankeen Kestrel, Grey-crowned Babbler, Singing Honeyeater, Brown Booby, Reef Heron, Barred Doves, Masked ...
Read more →September 2019 Presenter Hazel Dempster has made an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Australian plants, in a voluntary capacity during her membership of the Wildflower Society of WA for over 40 years. She is an Honorary Life Member of that Society. Hazel is also a voluntary associate consultant with ...
Read more →Bronwyn Ayre, a PhD candidate at UWA and BGPA (Kings Park), is studying the pollination of Red and Green Kangaroo Paws. Her talk covered many aspects of Kangaroo Paws and Catspaws, including a description of each one in WA, e.g.: Anigozanthos flavidus – Tall Kangaroo Paw Anigozanthos bicolor – Little Kangaroo Paw ...
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