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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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