Irreplaceable petroglyphs of Murujuga/the Burrup: a step closer to World Heritage protection Murujuga / the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia’s Pilbara, contains the world’s oldest and largest rock art precinct, with an estimated one million ancient petroglyphs (rock carvings) across the Dampier Archipelago. There are many different styles ...
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KRMB Excursion February 2020 A group of 8 members met up on a beautiful morning for our first outing of the year. Arriving at the carpark on Arcadia Drive, Shoalwater, we looked out over the beautiful vista that is Shoalwater Marine Park with Shoalwater Beach beneath us and Penguin and ...
Read more →KRMB February 2020 The guest speaker for our February meeting was Alison Dixon who is involved in fauna relocation and rehabilitation. Rather than deliver a standard type presentation to the audience, Alison spread out a number of photographs and other exhibits to show the diverse nature of the work she ...
Read more →DRB Nats Meeting March 2020 Well what a fabulous talk we were given for the second meeting of the year for DRB Nats club. Michael Byrne from CPD tree services came to speak to us about ‘caring for trees in an urban forest’. What a treat! Michael is a qualified ...
Read more →Main Club March 2020 Our speaker was Paul Lavery, Professor of Marine Ecology at the Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research at Edith Cowan University. His area of research is benthic marine ecosystems, especially seagrasses and how they respond to human pressures. Paul began by pointing out that seagrasses are not ...
Read more →A small group of Nats Club members gathered on a clear but breezy Sunday morning to explore one of Perth’s most popular dive spots, the Omeo shipwreck in Coogee. The Omeo had quite a varied service history, serving as an iron steamship, a passenger and cargo carrier, transporting materials for ...
Read more →Advertisement Informative naturalist/birding leaders • Small groups (6 – 14 participants) • Private charters available • Fully accommodated & camping tours Lake Eyre Basin and Flinders Ranges Expedition11 Day Camping Tour – Departs Adelaide 16th May 2020 This tour covers some of South Australia’s most historic outback locations in the ...
Read more →The Northern Suburbs Branch used the occasion of its annual January Barbecue and Social event to unveil a memorial to life member, Alex Saar, who passed away in March 2019. Alex joined the Club’s Young Nats in the early-mid 1950s and after graduating to adult membership in 1959, remained a ...
Read more →Perth NRM and Birdlife Australia have joined forces to develop a new website to get Perth residents to begin rewilding their gardens to encourage the return of native flora, fauna (particularly birds!) and important pollinators throughout the urban and peri-urban environment. The ReWild Perth website will allow users to register ...
Read more →DRB FEBRUARY 2020 Meeting The first talk of 2020 for the Darling Range Branch was kicked off by an extremely talented family of photographers, Paul and Joshua Irvine. Paul Irvine is a macro-photographer who loves nothing better than to explore the great outdoors on the lookout for species of arachnids ...
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