Kwinana/Rockingham/Mandurah Branch Field Trip 9th February 2014 The February excursion was to the AQWA aquarium at Hillary’s Boat Harbour. Eight members met up as the facility opened to view some of the state’s amazing marine fauna that would otherwise be out of sight to most of us. The walk through AQWA ...
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“Kanyana is a community, not just a wildlife rescue centre,” says June Butcher, Founder and General Manager of Kanyana Wildlife Research Centre in Lesmurdie. “While rescue and recovery of native animals remain our core business, today it is much, much more. With over 300 volunteers and all the associated energy ...
Read more →Adjunct Professor Jonathan Majer presented his talk on “Invertebrate surveillance on Barrow Island – a bare necessity”. Jonathan, now retired and working as a consultant, has the rare privilege of having a new ant species named after him, Melophorus majeri. His presentation condensed several years of work preparing a baseline ...
Read more →The September field trip was a return to “Wandoo Ridge”, a 450acre bush block owned by Dave Daniels and Libby Burgess. Libby and young son Andrew were our hosts as Dave was working away and unfortunately unable to join us. A total of 5 members made the trip. Driving west ...
Read more →Numbers for the Kwinana / Rockingham / Mandurah Branch September meeting were down due to many members being away on holidays. For those of us at the meeting Andrew Motherwell came prepared with a large number of plant specimens from his garden and nearby dunes (Andrew’s home is near Warnbro beach ...
Read more →Our meeting entitled “Papua New Guinea experiences” was a dual presentation by two of our local members, both keen nature observers and both having spent time in the country for different reasons, albeit forty years apart. Eric McCrum related some of his experiences working as a patrol officer and local ...
Read more →Field Trip 31st August 2013 – 1st September 2013 The August field trip saw a return to Goodale Sanctuary on Saturday 31st August. KRMB members were joined by a few members from the Main Club for the opportunity to spend a day or two as guests of Bob and Lynette Goodale. The wet ...
Read more →As is the tradition at this time of year, KRMB members held our annual get together to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the branch. This year we met for breakfast at the Bodrum Bay Café in Safety Bay. A total of fourteen of us enjoyed a very ...
Read more →Clean, clear water brusquely babbling, two-note Pardalotes singing overhead from a tiny spout in an Eucalyptus wandoo, Grevillea pilulifera and Trimalium ledifolium layering understory in dense cream blossom, along with the warmth of a winter sun illuminating the Jarrah/Marri/Wandoo woodland at the Schipp Road entrance of Kalamunda National Park delighted ...
Read more →Lauren Peel, a UWA Zoology graduate and shark enthusiast, presented an interesting talk on sharks at the meeting held on 9th August. Her talk introduced us to some aspects of sharks and their behaviour gained from her experiences participating in white shark research work based in Mossel Bay, South Africa. ...
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