Main Club –2 August 2024 Dr Holly Raudino is a senior research scientist in the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) Marine Science program. Her interests are whales and dolphins off the coast of Western Australia (WA). Her PhD, through Murdoch University, was on the Bunbury Bottlenose Dolphins. She ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Whole Club, 13 July 2024 100 members and guests gathered to share in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Club. Displays of the 50th anniversary of Tomato Lake clearing, and pictures of club history were shown as guests enjoyed pre-lunch drinks. Mike and Mandy Bamford were tasked with keeping everything on track as ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 23 June 2024 The June field excursion was to Paganoni Reserve, primarily focusing on Fungi. An excellent turnout of 34 members and guests met at the power line entrance as a fine drizzle started to fall, but it soon blew over, and the remainder of the ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch meeting, 17 June 2024 Daniel Heald was the speaker for our June meeting. He gave a presentation on fungi, discussing around 30 fungi to describe fungal diversity in the environment. Some estimates put the number of species of fungi in the 2.2 to 3.8 million range, ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, GOLLY Walk – 26 June 2024 Sharon McArthur from Friends of Hillarys-Kallaroo Foreshore joined eight NSB members for a walk along the beach area at Whitfords Nodes. The weather was against us, but we wandered along the beachfront between showers and viewed the local osprey that has ...
Read more →Main Club – 5 July 2024 Our speaker, Julie Fielder, is a mycologist and botanist who has worked with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), investigating the effects of logging and burning in our forests. She is part of a team working on a book about fungal ecology ...
Read more →… a story by Dom Serventy Dr Dom Serventy (1904-1988) was a founding member of the WA Naturalists’ Club. The following article is a story by Dr Dom Serventy that first appeared in the Naturalist News, June 1974, for the 50th anniversary celebrations and titled “Field Trips 50 Years Ago”. ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 21 April 2024 The April field excursion was to Goegrup Lake on the Serpentine River at Greenfields in Mandurah. A small group of nine members met at the Riverside Gardens car park on a fine autumn morning for the walk. Many others were also enjoying the ...
Read more →DRBNats,10 May 2024 Current and past members of the Darling Range Branch and guests gathered at the Kalamunda Community Centre on Friday, 10 May, to celebrate the branch’s 50th anniversary since its founding in 1974 and the 90th birthday of co-founder Eric McCrum OAM. It was a jovial atmosphere as ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 26 May 2024 The May field excursion was to Lake Richmond, and a good turnout of ten members and three visitors met at the northwest corner of the lake on a fine morning. For the benefit of new members and the visitors, Colin gave a summary ...
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