DRB Presents: Alex George talks about Autumn in the bush
Alex George talks about Autumn in the bush
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Kalamunda Community Centre Kalamunda Community Centre, end of Crescent Rd, Off Mundaring Weir Road,, Kalamunda, WA, Australia
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General Meeting KRMB
Naragebup Rockingham Environment Centre 49 Safety Bay Road, Peron, WA, AustraliaTopic: Belinda Forbes’ work on field fauna and flora surveys Time: 7:00 pm Speaker: Belinda Forbes Venue: Naragebup (Rockingham Regional Environment Centre), Safety Bay Road, Peron. Contact: for further details
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Amanda Bourne – 10 species in 10 years: a review of the Mt Gibson mammal restoration project
FeaturedWestern Quoll. Photo by Robin Sinclair of AWC.
This talk to the main branch of the WA Naturalists’ Club will be given by Amanda Bourne who leads the conservation science program on four Australian Wildlife Conservancy wildlife sanctuaries in Western Australia. She will talk about the Mt Gibson Mammal Restoration Project, which is on Badimia Country.
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Night Parrots by Neil Hamilton (DRB)
Kalamunda Community Centre Kalamunda Community Centre, end of Crescent Rd, Off Mundaring Weir Road,, Kalamunda, WA, AustraliaThe Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of Australia’s most mysterious birds. Once thought extinct, Night Parrots were rediscovered in 2013, a century after the last sighting of a living individual. it survives in remote arid regions, hiding among dense spinifex and emerging only at night. Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, it has become a symbol of both the fragility and resilience of Australia’s desert ecosystems.
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Biodiversity Research Within the Arid Zones of Western Australia after Rediscovering a Critical Endangered Species
North Beach Tennis Club 7B Kitchener St, North Beach, WA, AustraliaNote our March to June meetings will not be held at the HEC due to ongoing maintenance. Instead, we will meet on the third Tuesday at the North Beach Tennis Club, 7B Kitchener St, North Beach. Night Parrot by Bruce Greatwich 2017 Our speaker tonight is Neil Hamilton (Ghost Bird ...
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Roz Hart on Fungi For Land
FeaturedWe’re only just beginning to understand the complex role fungi play in our unique landscapes. But the more we learn, the more we understand just how dependent we are on fungal diversity. Roz will talk about recent advances to assist Citizen Scientists to gain a better understanding of the fungi ...
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Peter Ewing and Sam Lostrom: Expanding Remnant Bush in the Heavily Cleared Wheatbelt Bioregion
Bush Blocks Guardians Inc. (BBG) was formed to facilitate purchasing land for conservation in the Wheatbelt, which has undergone extensive clearing reducing most bush to small, isolated remnants. In 2021 BBG purchased 666ha to be preserved and rehabilitated in the Eastern Wheatbelt. The block was selected as two of its boundaries border ...
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KRMB May General Meeting – Reptiles
Naragebup Rockingham Environment Centre 49 Safety Bay Road, Peron, WA, AustraliaThe topic for KRMB's May General Meeting is Reptiles. The speaker will be Hawk Boisvert. The presentation will feature reptiles that are on display at Naragebup and will allow some close up interaction with Bearded Dragons and Pythons etc.
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NSB MEMBERS NIGHT
Undercroft Bridge Club Ron Chamberlain Dr, Duncraig, Western Australia, AustraliaCome along and hear what some of our NSB members have been up to lately. You will be surprised, enlightened and entertained. Christine Curry will chill you with Iceland, Bob Willis will thrill you with Kakadu and Ben Schneider with fill you with information from his about-to-be-released publication on native ...
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Kailah Thorn – One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink – A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles
Kailah is the WA Museum Collections Manager for Herpetology and crawls through Western Australian caves searching for recently extinct reptiles. She specialises in Australian reptile fossils that are less than 66 million years old (from the Cenozoic) and has described Australia’s oldest skink (Proegernia mikebulli), deciphered when the first true ...
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Xanthorrhoea and Kingia: iconic grasstrees
Hew Roberts LT Nedlands Lecture Theatre, Clifton St., NedlandsWhat Xanthorrhea is that? Or is it a Kingia? Back in 2020, presenters Geoff and Linda, along with other Western Botanical ecological consultancy staff, noticed significant variation in Xanthorrhoea (Grasstrees) while undertaking surveys in the eastern wheatbelt. When they investigated Xanthorrhoea nana, they found three forms that were difficult to ...