Blackadder Creek Reserve is a small nature reserve of about a dozen hectares—much longer than it is wide—that straddles the winter-wet Blackadder Creek in Stratton in the City of Swan. Its major axis is east-west and it forms a contiguous extension of the much larger Talbot Road Reserve to the ...
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MARCH: WILDLIFE OF FORRESTDALE LAKE & ANSTEY ROAD BUSHLAND Our guest speaker Glen Gaikhorst was from the Friends of Forrestdale group. This Friends group has been together for over 30 years and was established from a small group of environmentally aware people, continuing as a small, active group today. Forrestdale ...
Read more →This was the DRB’s inaugural “Café Chats for Nats” event: a new social occasion with a natural history book theme, set in a cafe. The purpose of this DRB members’ only event is to enable those who can’t make it to Friday night meetings or who don’t like driving at ...
Read more →MARCH: WESTERN SHIELD PROJECT Globally unique and one of the largest threat abatement programs in the world, the Western Shield program aims to halt the decline of Western Australia’s native fauna. Such is the task of zoologist Dr Michelle Drew from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) who ...
Read more →Leighton films a Sea Lion Our speaker, Leighton De Barros, has 30 years’ experience in the television industry, as producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He has worked on a great many films broadcast on television, has won 15 industry awards and been nominated for Emmy awards four times. He is ...
Read more →MARCH: WOODLAND AND FOREST HEALTH Our speaker was Professor Giles Hardy, Professor in Forest Pathology at Murdoch University. His main research interests are the impact of diseases on the health and functioning of ecosystems, both natural and managed. Within this field he has focussed mainly on the biology and control ...
Read more →CONTENTS NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH MEETING REPORT KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH FEBRUARY MEETING REPORT MAIN CLUB FEBRUARY EXCURSION REPORT DARLING RANGE BRANCH FEBRUARY EXCURSION REPORT KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH FEBRUARY EXCURSION REPORT VALE STAN TELFORD NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH MEETING REPORT SAVING AND SAVOURING THE HELENA AND AURORA RANGE Our speaker for February was ...
Read more →Foreword As the Murdoch University 2016 winner of the Serventy Memorial Prize, I am honoured to write this article for the WA Naturalists’ Club. During my studies for a degree in Conservation and Wildlife Biology I came to understand the enormity of conservation issues currently facing the world. One that ...
Read more →MARCH 2018 CONTENTS MAIN CLUB MEETING REPORT DARLING RANGE BRANCH MEETING REPORT NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH MEETING REPORT DARLING RANGE BRANCH MENTORING GROUP KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT BOOK REVIEWS UNUSUAL ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA SURVEY YUNDERUP RECORDS FOUND! VALE ROB WALLER YOUNG NATURALISTS PROGRAM 2018 BUSSELTON NATURALISTS CLUB 2018 PROGRAM NEW MEMBERS ...
Read more →As in previous years, our walk along the coastal path was a combined event with the Retired and Leisured Group. Despite being a rather secluded car park, ten members found our starting point and a few took the opportunity to grab a drink from the coffee van before we departed—having ...
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