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 →Former president of the club, Kevin Coate wishes to advise members that Yvonne Coate has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Our condolences to Kevin from the Council. The Funeral Cortege for Mrs Yvonne Coate of Canning Vale will arrive at FREMANTLE Cemetery, Carrington Street, Palmyra at 10:30am ...
Read more →One of our long-term members, Anne Mueller, passed away at the age of 91 on the 21st November in the company of her husband Otto and daughter Claudia. Anne was a very active member of the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club, having been one of the founding members of the Kwinana, ...
Read more →KRM Branch 23 October 2022 Only a small group of seven members met at the ticket kiosk for our trip over to Penguin Island, with the grey overcast sky and the threat of showers possibly keeping others away. KRMB traditionally schedules a visit to Penguin Island each year in early ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch 26 October 2022 GOLLY walk Fourteen members and visitors joined us on a bright sunny morning for our Kulbardi Walk through a lesser-visited part of Bold Park behind the Bold Park Aquatic Centre. The Kulbardi Walk is part of the Whadjuk Trail Network that links remnant bushland ...
Read more →KRM Branch 17 October 2022 The October General Meeting saw guest speaker Tammy Goad, who stepped in when the scheduled speaker was called away to do a survey and deliver a PowerPoint presentation on Reptiles. Tammy works within the Native Species Breeding Program as part of the Perth Zoo Science ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 19 October 2022 Our theme for the year, Anything Marine, finally got back on track in October when we were privileged to have Monique Barker and Talitha Wolfe from Save Our Marine Life come along to talk about marine parks in general and the proposed review and expansion of the ...
Read more →DRB Nats 21 -23 October 2022 This intergenerational weekend offered the 19 participants a variety of opportunities to see the Dryandra woodland featuring the largest remnant of native vegetation in the western Wheatbelt. It’s a valuable and diverse conservation area. Well-signed walking trails guided us through magnificent open eucalypt woodland. The tall, white-barked wandoo and the mallet trees are impressive. ...
Read more →ADVERTISEMENT This is the first book to describe the biodiversity and natural history of Western Australia’s (WA) more than 3000 islands, almost all of which are either national parks, nature reserves, or Indigenous Protected Areas; a situation unique world-wide. Western Australia is in the unique position of having a globally-significant ...
Read more →Main Club, 2 September 2022 Dr Ana Sequeira spoke to us about the movements of megafauna in Shark Bay, known as Gathaaguda, by the traditional owners, the Malgana people. Ana moved to Western Australia from Portugal to do a PhD on Whale Sharks. Through that work, she developed a global ...
Read more →Main Club, 7 October 2022 Our speaker was scientist and educator Bronwen Keighery. As lead botanist for the EPA for 15 years, Bronwen helped to develop native vegetation as a critical factor in environmental assessment. She and her husband Greg were founding members of the Perth branch of the Wildflower ...
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