Darling Range Branch Our guest speaker for the night, Johnny Prefumo, drove all the way up from Bunbury to give a packed Jorgensen Park Pavilion a first-rate talk on frogs for our April DRB meeting. Everyone loved it! This was far more than a survey of batrachian taxonomy in the ...
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Main Club Our speaker was Professor Byron Lamont, an expert on the adaptations of Mediterranean floras, especially those in south-west Australia. His special interests within that field are the evolution of the Proteaceae or Banksia family and the role of fire in the evolution of plants. He studied Agricultural Science ...
Read more →SERVENTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018 Dr Noel Nannup, is a respected Aboriginal Elder, story-teller and cultural guide. He is a heritage consultant, has been named NAIDOC Male Elder of the Year, and is ECU’s Elder in Residence. He began with a Welcome to Country, in which he ushered the bad spirits ...
Read more →The Critically Endangered Western Swamp Tortoise is the subject of the recently published book, Westy: the Western Swamp Tortoise by Cathy Levett. A bright, colourful children’s book with simple but engaging text, Westy is the outcome of the author’s involvement with the Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise group. Chair ...
Read more →Eight members plus one visitor assembled at the main car park at the lake on March 25: a grey morning with rain about. Our leader for the day was Otto Mueller, who suggested that we should have a quick look out on the lake from the small observation platform at ...
Read more →Five members and a visitor who had travelled all the way from Beaconsfield spent the morning exploring the beach and cliffs north of Trigg Island. Unfortunately, by the time we returned from this foray the wind had swung to the southwest. So despite the shelter of the island the sea ...
Read more →The Shire of Mundaring ran their first ever Blue Sky Festival on Saturday 17 March 2018, and the DRB Nats had a stall there. It was a sustainability-focused festival based on themes such as biodiversity, renewable energy, waste management and saving our bushland. It was a local, non-commercial, low waste ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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