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 →We live in a truly blessed region of the planet, which is known for its clean and green environment as well as for its unique biodiversity, with a significant number of species endemic to the region. Even our capital city, Perth, is considered the wildlife capital of the world because ...
Read more →26 June 2022 For our field outing to Goodale Sanctuary, a great turnout of 14 joined our hosts, Bob and Lynnette Goodale, on a beautiful winter morning. Goodale Sanctuary is a private conservation property of roughly 100 acres adjacent to Nine Mile Nature Reserve in West Coolup, southwest of Pinjarra. ...
Read more →8 July 2022 Forty members and visitors gathered outside the Herdsman Lake Discovery Centre, feeling optimistic and ready to look for frogs around the lake’s edges. As it was still quite light, our leader and frog expert, Paul Doughty, spent a few moments describing some of the common frogs of ...
Read more →20TH June 2022 The guest speaker for the June meeting was Jake Cherry, and his presentation was entitled Naragebup and the Intertidal Communities of Point Peron. Jake is a marine biologist who recently volunteered at Naragebup, the Rockingham Regional Environmental Centre. Jake started his presentation with a description of the ...
Read more →1st July 2022 Our speaker was Paul Doughty, Curator of Herpetology at the WA Museum, whose interests are mainly frogs and geckos. He focused on the frogs of the Southwest. He said frog species are relatively easy to distinguish because, as a rule, you can use the calls instead of ...
Read more →Kwinana, Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 22nd May 2022 A group of eight members attended our Field Outing at the Alcoa Wellard Wetlands. The weather gods were kind to us, providing a pleasant morning and holding off on the rainfall until later in the afternoon. The Wellard Wetlands are a series of ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 22ndJune 2022 The chilly 8:00 am start the morning after the winter solstice did not stop eleven members and a WA Natural History Lovers visitor from joining Friends of Koondoola Bushland convenor, Jennie Villiers, and City of Wanneroo Conservation Officer, Sasha Poli, for a very interesting walk ...
Read more →DRBNats, 21st May 2022 This meandering walk trail in the magnificent Ellis Brook Valley is just off the Tonkin Highway, 15 km from Gosnells. We saw a variety of orchids and landscape trees generic to the area. Eucalyptus wandoo and Acacia dentifera were in abundance (not yet flowering). We walked ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 15th June 2022 When our scheduled speaker for June was unavailable, we invited Jennie Villiers, Convenor- Friends of Koondoola Bushland, to speak to us about the history and biodiversity of Koondoola Regional Bushland. This proved to be a very fortunate choice as Jennie offered to take us ...
Read more →Main Club, 3rd June 2022 Our speaker was Bernie Masters, president of the Busselton Naturalists’ Club for the last 40 years. Bernie is a biologist and geologist who has worked in environmental assessment and mine site rehabilitation for many years and has had personal experience with fire management. Bernie pointed ...
Read more →By the time we turned around at the Woodbridge boat ramp, seven kilometres upstream from Guilderton, we had passed probably the best stands of Tuart in the State, large expanses of Swamp Paperbark, a hillside of Allocasuarina sp., possibly cumulus and closer to the river, three species of banksia, B. menziesii, B. littoralis and B. attenuata.
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