DRB Presents: Lauren Hawkins – Listening to the Forest: ecoacoustics and ecosystem health
DRB Presents: Lauren Hawkins - Listening to the Forest: ecoacoustics and ecosystem health
DRB Presents: Lauren Hawkins - Listening to the Forest: ecoacoustics and ecosystem health
Join Kelly Sheldrick for a fascinating talk about bats in southwest WA, including highlights from recent summer trapping work. She’ll share how acoustic lures are being used to attract bats, how acoustic and trapping results compare, and some of the species they’ve caught along the way. Kelly will also talk ...
The 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp was held between 1-7 May with the Wellington Forest Cottages as our base. It was a very packed programme with visits to and walks at, many interesting sites, including an introduction to the forest at the nearby Wellington Discovery Forest Centre and a guided ...
Join Kelly Sheldrick for a talk about citizen science bat surveys in southwest WA, and learn more about these elusive mammals, which make up around a third of all mammal species in the region. The presentation will cover the survey techniques used, including the use of acoustic lures to increase ...
DRB Presents: BoorYul-Bah-Bilya: A new community catchment plan for the Mandoon Bilya (Helena River)
Dragonflies (Odonata) are some of the most aesthetically pleasing and most loved wetland insects, yet we know very little about the ecology or biology of Australian species. There are more than 40 species found in southwestern Australia, of which nearly half are endemic species, and there are also endemic genera. ...
Speaker: All members Presenter Erin Clitheroe has had to POSTPONE her talk on Little Penguins unfortunately. The meeting will now be a Members' Night, with all contributing images and sightings. Contact: for further details phone Colin Prickett 0408 618 975
Main Club Meeting Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre, UWA, Clifton Street Nedlands Murdoch University’s Black Cockatoo Conservation Management research team has been undertaking research on Western Australia’s black cockatoos over the last 18 years. The health research on Carnaby’s cockatoos aims to better understand the potential role of disease as a threatening ...
DRB Presents: Courtney Butterworth - Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB) Response
Michael Burke, Shark Response Unit Manager, DPIRD Michael will discuss the range of tools and actions used to help keep ocean users and coastal communities as safe as possible. Bring your mobile phone and learn how to use the SharkSmart WA app. Photo: DPIRD
At the September General Meeting Daniel Heald will deliver a presentation on Protozoans. Protozoans are defined as 'a single-celled microscopic animal of a group of phyla of the kingdom Protista, such as an amoeba, flagellate, ciliate, or sporozoan'.
Join Jasper as he delivers an entomological anthology style talk detailing topics of Katydid comparisons, Odonatan inventions, metamorphic memories and other such insect musings. Jasper Dean is the current Secretary of the WA Insect Study Society. He is currently studying Conservation Biology and English Literature (double major) at UWA. The ...