NS Branch meeting 19th MAY 2021 Our theme for May was Rottnest Island. The mini-symposium, Rottnest in an Hour, attracted about 40 people, the largest audience so far this year, no doubt lured by the four experienced presenters – all Rottnest Volunteer Guides and with one exception, Nats members. Peter ...
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Main Club meeting 4th June 2021 Our speaker was Dr Neville Marchant. Neville worked at the WA Herbarium from the age of 15 as assistant to Government Botanist, Charles Gardner, before graduating from UWA and then gaining his PhD in Plant Taxonomy at Cambridge. After that, he worked at the ...
Read more →Main Club Friday, 7th May 2021 Our speaker, Dr Oliver Berry, is the leader of the Environomics Future Science Platform, a Research and Development program at the CSIRO. Oliver was previously a post-doctoral researcher and Fellow at UWA. He told us that that he once worked with Rick How and ...
Read more →Main Club Sunday, 18th April 2021 On the 18th of April, the Main Club organized a visit to Boola Bardip, the state museum in the Perth Cultural Centre. Ten adults and two children joined our excursion, which started with a guided tour by Mark Harvey, Senior Curator of Arachnology. Mark ...
Read more →KRMB Sunday, 2nd May 2021 The April field outing had to be moved to the 2nd of May due to the Anzac Day. The outing was to Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre in Martin. We had booked a tour of the facility (it is the only way to see the ...
Read more →NSB Wednesday, 21st April 2021 Meeting Wednesday 12th May 2021 Golly Walk Our two April events were scheduled to dovetail, starting with an evening talk by Dr Peter Downes, the Curator of Minerals at the new museum, to be followed the next Wednesday by a guided tour with Peter through ...
Read more →KRMB- FRIDAY, 19th APRIL 2021 For our April general meeting, we had guest speaker Jasmine Lyons, a member of the Underwater Explorers Club, deliver a presentation entitled ‘Do you see anything down there?’. Jasmine has a passion for diving, observing and taking photograph of marine life. While Jasmine is a ...
Read more →Paperback | March 2021 | $ 49.99ISBN: 9781486313747 | 424 pages | 215 x 148 mmPublisher: CSIRO PublishingColour photographs, Illustrations, Maps ePDF | March 2021ISBN: 9781486313754Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers ePUB | March 2021ISBN: 9781486313761Publisher: CSIRO PublishingAvailable from eRetailers This is a well written and extremely cohesive book that well illustrates all ...
Read more →Explore the nature around you. Observe, Documenting and Sharing them online. MAY 2021 Conservation starts with awareness. We cannot protect or value what we don’t understand – and that understanding begins with action we can take TODAY. Through BackyardBio (www.backyardbio.net), our goal is to provide an easy, fun and engaging ...
Read more →Report of Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch 21st March 2021 The March field outing was to Bibra Lake and ten members met at the main carpark on a warm, sunny morning. At this time of the year, Bibra Lake is usually a great place to see wetland birds as it generally ...
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