KRM Branch February Meeting The speaker for our first meeting of 2019 was KRMB member Daniel Heald who gave a talk, supported by photographs, on marine plants of the local area. He started with a brief summary of the structure of seaweeds—a general term that covers all forms of marine ...
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Northern Suburbs Branch FebruaryAll photos D Poynton unless credited otherwise Rather than pick a single venue, the hosts of the 2018 ANN Get-together chose to showcase the variation in natural history found in south-western Victoria by using three locations for accommodation. This meant most interstate participants who were not self-driving ...
Read more →DRB Meeting February Speaker Tony Hodge, is a zoologist and bat care volunteer at Kanyana Wildlife. Tony began by telling the audience that bats were originally thought to be rodents or primates but amazingly, their closest living relatives are horses and rhinoceroses! There are two main types of bat: fruit ...
Read more →Main Club March Meeting Our speaker was geologist Mike Freeman. Mike graduated from Adelaide University and has 50 years’ experience in geology, including teaching the public about geology and landforms, and being involved in the Geological Survey of WA and land-use planning on the Swan Coastal Plain. Mike talked to ...
Read more →Our speaker, following the AGM, was Ryan Glowacki, Bushland Manager for the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Ryan began by talking about Quendas, which were until recently considered to be a subspecies of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Now they have been assigned their own species: Isoodon fusciventer. Before ...
Read more →as we all head into 2019 natural history activities. I’m attaching the Minutes GM2018 Anglesea held in Anglesea towards the end of ANN2018. ANN2018 was highly successful and greatly enjoyed by the 74 participants from all states and territories except for the Northern Territory. The Get-Together was hosted by Victoria under ...
Read more →A botanical journey from Toodyay through New Norcia to Mt Lesueur Shire of Toodyay Curator Margie Eberle The exhibition follows the original tracks taken from Toodyay via New Norcia northwards to Mt Lesueur by James Drummond 1786-1863, Western Australia’s first government botanist, followed by Charles Gardner 1896-1970, many years later. ...
Read more →November NS Branch Meeting Report Club members and presenters Andrew Cummings and Ben Schneider have travelled thousands of kilometres around the state collecting land snails; many are new species which will take years to describe. Andrew informed us that there are an estimated 2500 – 3000 native species in Australia. These make ...
Read more →Australia’s Most Elusive BirdPenny Olsen Paperback | September 2018 | $ 49.99 ISBN: 9781486302987 | 368 pages | 245 x 170 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Illustrations, Photographs ePDF | September 2018 ISBN: 9781486302994 Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Available from eRetailers Penny Olsen’s new book tells a wholly human story of hopes kindled and dashed, tall stories told, of ...
Read more →Kings Park will again light up from 8 – 11 February, to tell the story of our unique biodiversity as part of Perth Festival. This year there is a new, on-ground component called Boodja Djena: Ground Beneath Our Feet, and you can be involved. Many Nats members are already doing ...
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