CCWA has a new Executive Director, Matt Roberts. He brings a broad experience in leadership, organisation planning, campaigning, communications, and media. He brings a diverse background, including experience with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation and the Department for Communities, teaching at UWA, and a leadership role with the ...
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Advance Notice, 23-29 August The Club has been invited to visit the property of Bush Blocks Guardians in Westonia adjacent to Chiddarcooping Nature Reserve (western side) (https://bushblocksguardians.org.au/). There are a wide variety of landscapes: large granite outcrops and slabs with shallow gnammas, large tors and a very unique and extensive mini ...
Read more →The Club’s goal is to support and engage in the study and conservation of the biodiversity of Western Australia and the wider natural environment. In the past, and still our main mode of operation is to write excursion reports and submit species lists with them for the Club’s archives. However, ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 23 April 2025. Much to our relief, the BOM radar showed that the forecasted heavy rain had passed by the time seven of us climbed the stairs to the lookout from which we had views seaward, across Marmion Marine Park and landward, across the foreshore reserve which ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch, 15 April 2025 There is plenty of information around for those that think they maybe affected. That’s what I thought anyway. A conversation with our branch treasurer about DPIRD and the local council visiting her garden a couple of times to investigate, made me aware of ...
Read more →Honorary Life member of the club Gordon Stanley Thomas Elliott, died on 22 May 2025. He had a passion for Natural History, particularly birds. He valued responsibility and self-belief as essential aspects of education. He died wearing his WA Naturalists Club green polo, reflecting his deep affection for the organisation. The Council ...
Read more →Kwinana Rockingham Mandurah Branch, 27 April 2025 Our April outing to Goegrup Lake was attended by 18 members and visitors on a beautiful morning. Two Nankeen Night Herons, settling into the canopy of the tree next to the car park after a night’s foraging, captured everyone’s’ attention as we signed ...
Read more →Main Club, 2 May 2025 Tonight’s talk was by Dr Sue Graham-Taylor AM, a professional historian and researcher, and previously Curator of History and Sustainability at the WA Museum. She has curated exhibitions such as the Changes gallery at the WA Museum (Boola Bardip), that examines environmental changes in WA. ...
Read more →Private Nature Reserve at West CoolupEstablished 1980 Due to age and health issues, Goodale Sanctuary is for sale. Naturalists’ Club Honorary Life Member Bob Goodale and Lynette Goodale are reluctantly moving on. To see selling details see Elders Real Estate
Read more →The new owners of Hi Vallee Farm are looking for a volunteer caretaker, so basic camping facilities can be continued at a reasonable cost. The new owners acquired the property for conservation as well as for research and education. Providing camping facilities would fit in with one of their aims ...
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