The May field trip was to Peel Zoo, located in Sanctuary Drive, Pinjarra (near the golf course). Eight members attended on a fine autumn morning. For most of us this was a first visit to this facility. Peel Zoo is a privately funded zoo and wildlife ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Dr Tony Friend from CALM and DEC presented us with a talk on small Western Australian mammals with particular emphasis on the plight of dibblers. Tony is the principal research scientist based in Albany and his brief covers several mammals, including potoroos and numbats as well as dibblers. Dibblers (Parantechinus ...
Read more →Twenty-seven naturalists enjoyed a beautiful warm and sunny Sunday morning on the short Weir View loop walk from the Perth Hills Centre at Mundaring Weir. Several welcome members from main club, including President Roz Hart, made the journey to the Hills in the hope of seeing some fungi. Unfortunately the ...
Read more →Nine members turned up for the April field trip, a walk in Paganoni Reserve on a beautiful autumn morning. Paganoni Swamp Reserve is part of the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park and is a Bush Forever site. It is a large reserve, around 680ha, and has a number of different types ...
Read more →The speaker for the April meeting was Bob Goodale who kindly offered to share some photographs and experiences from a trip that he and Lynette made in January/February this year. They travelled from Perth to Tamworth and return over a period of around 8 weeks. During the trip they visited ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch, April 2012 Meeting Report Dr Natasha Pauli from UWA presented the talk for the meeting on a subject that explored some of the relationships between soil fauna and vegetation. In her illustrated talk she developed on the poser: ‘are plants really the architects for below ground diversity?’ ...
Read more →The Young Naturalists had another great turn out for our April excursion when 30 children met at the Western Australian Reptile Park in Henley Brook, to learn about reptiles. Gane Doyle Jnr started the afternoon with a brief instruction on what to do in the event of a snake bite. ...
Read more →The Young Naturalists had another great turn out for our March excursion to the Canning River Eco Education Centre (CREEC ). Located in Wilson, on the bank of the Canning River , CREEC is owned and operated by the City of Canning. The Centre was purpose built for facilitating nature ...
Read more →Darling Range Branch February Excursion Report The WA MUSEUM is a great place to be on a hot day and so it was for a smallish Nats group from the DRB and a couple from the Main Club. We assembled in the main foyer and inspected the life-size dinosaur, Carnotaurus ...
Read more →Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre excursion, February 2012. In welcoming the Young Naturalists and their families to Kanyana, June Butcher expressed her delight at seeing so many young nature enthusiasts attending: our group totalled over 40 people, about two thirds of them children. June praised the parents for encouraging these children’s ...
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