Main Club Our speaker was Professor Byron Lamont, an expert on the adaptations of Mediterranean floras, especially those in south-west Australia. His special interests within that field are the evolution of the Proteaceae or Banksia family and the role of fire in the evolution of plants. He studied Agricultural Science ...
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SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018 Dr Noel Nannup, is a respected Aboriginal Elder, story-teller and cultural guide. He is a heritage consultant, has been named NAIDOC Male Elder of the Year, and is ECU’s Elder in Residence. He began with a Welcome to Country, in which he ushered the bad spirits ...
Read more →Eight members plus one visitor assembled at the main car park at the lake on March 25: a grey morning with rain about. Our leader for the day was Otto Mueller, who suggested that we should have a quick look out on the lake from the small observation platform at ...
Read more →Five members and a visitor who had travelled all the way from Beaconsfield spent the morning exploring the beach and cliffs north of Trigg Island. Unfortunately, by the time we returned from this foray the wind had swung to the southwest. So despite the shelter of the island the sea ...
Read more →Blackadder Creek Reserve is a small nature reserve of about a dozen hectares—much longer than it is wide—that straddles the winter-wet Blackadder Creek in Stratton in the City of Swan. Its major axis is east-west and it forms a contiguous extension of the much larger Talbot Road Reserve to the ...
Read more →MARCH: WILDLIFE OF FORRESTDALE LAKE & ANSTEY ROAD BUSHLAND Our guest speaker Glen Gaikhorst was from the Friends of Forrestdale group. This Friends group has been together for over 30 years and was established from a small group of environmentally aware people, continuing as a small, active group today. Forrestdale ...
Read more →This was the DRB’s inaugural “Café Chats for Nats” event: a new social occasion with a natural history book theme, set in a cafe. The purpose of this DRB members’ only event is to enable those who can’t make it to Friday night meetings or who don’t like driving at ...
Read more →MARCH: WESTERN SHIELD PROJECT Globally unique and one of the largest threat abatement programs in the world, the Western Shield program aims to halt the decline of Western Australia’s native fauna. Such is the task of zoologist Dr Michelle Drew from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) who ...
Read more →Leighton films a Sea Lion Our speaker, Leighton De Barros, has 30 years’ experience in the television industry, as producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He has worked on a great many films broadcast on television, has won 15 industry awards and been nominated for Emmy awards four times. He is ...
Read more →MARCH: WOODLAND AND FOREST HEALTH Our speaker was Professor Giles Hardy, Professor in Forest Pathology at Murdoch University. His main research interests are the impact of diseases on the health and functioning of ecosystems, both natural and managed. Within this field he has focussed mainly on the biology and control ...
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