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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260410T193000
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SUMMARY:Roz Hart on Fungi For Land
DESCRIPTION:We’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. \n\n\n\nRoz will talk about recent advances to assist Citizen Scientists to gain a better understanding of the fungi that we coexist with. Fungi do not just exist for us to eat! \n\n\n\nIt makes a difference if we understand what fungi do for our ecosystems and how land managers of all walks of life can work together with fungi. This gives us a better handle on what fungi can do for us as well as what we can do for them. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoz Hart and Sapphire McMullan Fisher have set up Fungi4Land\, working with Australian mycologists to gather and present in an understandable and workable format\, a guide to get a better understanding of how effective partnerships with local land managers\, flora and fauna can work in favour of the environment we live in.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/roz-hart-on-fungi-for-land/
CATEGORIES:General Meeting,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260501T193000
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SUMMARY:Peter Ewing and Sam Lostrom: Expanding Remnant Bush in the Heavily Cleared Wheatbelt Bioregion
DESCRIPTION: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 one of WA’s most important nature reserves and it supports a large diversity of habitats\, flora and vegetation. 200ha had been farmed which we are carefully revegetating using locally collected seed from about 50 species. We have professional ecologist members conducting systematic fauna and flora surveys to gain an understanding of baseline diversity. This will help determine effectiveness of efforts to rehabilitate cleared areas and control non-native species such as cats\, foxes and rabbits. We have also identified many First Nations heritage sites and quite unique granite rock structures. \n\n\n\nThis talk will briefly give an overview of how the group came together and some of our achievements\, and ecologist Sam Lostrom will detail our extensive fauna surveying program and plans for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhite-fronted Honeyeater\n\n\n\nBorya garden on granite
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/peter-ewing-and-sam-lostrum-on-bush-blocks-guardians-property-in-westonia/
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260518T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260601T023832Z
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SUMMARY:KRMB May General Meeting - Reptiles
DESCRIPTION:The 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.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/krmb-may-general-meeting-reptiles/
LOCATION:Naragebup Rockingham Environment Centre\, 49 Safety Bay Road\, Peron\, WA\, Australia
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260519T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260519T213000
DTSTAMP:20260601T023757Z
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SUMMARY:NSB MEMBERS NIGHT
DESCRIPTION:Come along and hear what some of our NSB members have been up to lately. You will be surprised\, enlightened and entertained. \nChristine 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 snails. \nPhoto. Iceland\, Christine Curry.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/nsb-members-night/
LOCATION:Undercroft Bridge Club\, Ron Chamberlain Dr\, Duncraig\, Western Australia\, Australia
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Willy Dadour (NSB Chair)":MAILTO:natsnorthernbranch@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260605T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260605T213000
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SUMMARY:Kailah Thorn - One skink\, two skink\, big skink\, blue skink – A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles
DESCRIPTION: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 bluetongue lizard evolved\, and assembled the largest skink on earth: Tiliqua frangens. \nKailah Thorn in Horseshoe Cave \nFossils from across the country can help us answer big questions and even reveal spiky surprises — like a bobtail lizard as long as your arm\, weighing 1\,000 times more than a garden skink\, and covered in spiked\, armoured plating! Fossils extend our expectations of what animals look like\, where they live\, where they’ve come from and what might have brought about their extinction. This talk will dive deep into the fossil history of Australia’s most diverse vertebrate family\, Scincidae: when did they get here and what’s happened to them since? \nThere will be a focus talk on Tasmanian flora and fauna from Tanya Marwood.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/kailah-thorn-skinks-2/
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
ORGANIZER;CN="Jolanda Keeble":MAILTO:jmkeeble@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260703T191500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20260703T210000
DTSTAMP:20260624T050004Z
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SUMMARY:Xanthorrhoea and Kingia: iconic grasstrees
DESCRIPTION:What Xanthorrhea is that? Or is it a Kingia?\n\nBack 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 distinguish\, so they began taking notes\, specimens and DNA samples.  This led to observations of other species elsewhere in the south-west of WA and Central Australia\, expanding their collections and developing a better understanding of the variation within the genus. With assistance from the WA Herbarium and other researchers\, they are working towards a revision of the Xanthorrhoea genus in WA.\nGeoff Cockerton has been working with WA native flora since 1979\, commencing while at university\, initially as a native seed supplier and since then as a botanical consultant\, now working at Western Botanical consultancy.\nLinda Dalgliesh has worked as an ecologist in WA and Qld for the past 20 years and has skills in zoology and botany.\nAfter the main presentation there will be a short focus on Botswana with Diana Papenfus.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/meeting-speaker-tbc/
LOCATION:Hew Roberts LT\, Nedlands Lecture Theatre\, Clifton St.\, Nedlands
CATEGORIES:General Meeting,Talk
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