ADVERTISEMENT 10 Day South Australian Outback Camping Tour Adelaide to Alice Springs • 21 – 30 April 2022 • Small Group Tour The heavy summer rains around Lake Eyre have resulted in the lake receiving substantial in-flows from local rivers and creeks, as well as saturating the surrounding area. This ...
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COVID 19 pandemic has caused a scary human health crisis of global dimension. The pandemic has already killed over 5.9 million people and there are still over 418 million confirmed cases battling infections across nations. In Australia, the total number of confirmed cases is close to 3 million with over ...
Read more →Australia has unique natural biodiversity. Reports indicate that about 94% of amphibians, 46% of birds, 93% of flowering plants, 69% of mammals and 93% of reptiles in Australia are endemic. In addition to climate change, the risk of harmful exotic invasive species (biological threats) entering, establishing, and spreading is the ...
Read more →Australia has never contributed a major food crop to the world. The only Australian native plant food developed and cropped on a large scale is macadamia nut. Though there are hundreds of Australian native plants that have been used as a source of food for a long time, none of ...
Read more →Western Australia has over the years made several good policies, plans, and investment decisions regarding the conservation of natural environment and biodiversity. One such recent decision included plans to end native forestry logging. From 2024, timber taken from native forests will be limited to forest management activities that improve forest ...
Read more →Western Australia’s 2021-22 Budget has highlighted a record general government operating surplus estimated at $5.6 billion, and a $2.8 billion operating surplus forecast for 2021-22. The estimated 2021-22 Federal Budget deficit is $106.6 billion. We are accustomed to receiving annual budgets from the governments. As a budget is a financial ...
Read more →Paperback | July 2022 | $ 49.99ISBN: 9781486313525 | 184 pages | 215 x 148 mmPublisher: CSIRO PublishingB&W photographs, Colour photographs, Illustrations ePDF | July 2022ISBN: 9781486313532Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers ePUB | July 2022ISBN: 9781486313549Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers Following the two large volumes of Australian Land shells, this guide introduces ...
Read more →KRM Branch 21st August 2022 KRMB branch’s field outing for August was to Oakley Dam at Marrinup on the Darling Scarp above Alcoa’s Pinjarra Alumina Refinery. The dam was established to provide water for steam trains but is no longer used for that purpose. Surrounded by Jarrah Forest, the dam ...
Read more →KRM Branch, 15th August 2022 Our guest speaker for the August meeting was Jasmine Lyons, who delivered a presentation entitled ‘Shark Tales’. As a member of the Underwater Explorers Club, Jasmine is an experienced SCUBA and Free diver who has dived at many locations both within WA and overseas. Consequently, ...
Read more →DRB Nats 12th August 2022 The guest speaker for the August Meeting was Mick Davies, a well-known local conservationist and leader talking about his encounter with Phascogales. A proven environmental project manager and communicator, he uses his extensive ecological knowledge, excellent project management skills and proven community engagement experience to ...
Read more →A project to protect Western Australia’s coastal seabirds – the fairy terns, a program to encourage school children to adopt a beach, and a coastal planning information-sharing forum, are among the winners of the 2022 Western Australian Coastal Awards for Excellence.The biennial awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts and ...
Read more →KRM Branch 18th July 2022 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Tom Chvojka delivered a presentation entitled ‘Fuel Reduction Burning, Facts and Myths’. Tom is a musician and string instrument repairer who lives on a woodland property (that has not been burnt for 37 years) near Dunsborough. He ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch Golly Walk: 27th July 2022 If every school had adjacent bushland and dedicated teachers like Coolbinia Primary School, we probably wouldn’t have to be so concerned about finding our next generation of Nats members. School Ambassadors Hudson and Luke greeted the eight members who came along. They ...
Read more →Young Naturalists, Main Club 24th July 2022 We were lucky to have fine, calm weather for a beach sweep at South Cottesloe, led by Maureen Gardner, Steve Lofthouse and me. A good crowd turned up, about half of them non-members and a number of children. There were piles of fresh ...
Read more →KRM Branch, 24TH July 2022 As is the tradition, KRMB members got together for a breakfast gathering to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of KRMB. The venue was the Palm Beach Café on the Rockingham foreshore looking out onto Cockburn Sound and Garden Island, and we were treated to ...
Read more →Main Club, 5th August 2022 In the absence of our scheduled speaker, the breach was kindly filled by Damian Lettoof, who was to give the short focus talk. Instead, he gave a full-length talk on his PhD research at Curtin University about how urbanisation has affected Tiger Snakes in and ...
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