This year we will be camping at the Collie River Tourist Park. Proposed activities include walking on parts of the Bibbulmun Track and spending a day on a property which our president Mandy is very familiar with. We will gather for pre-dinner drinks and nibbles in the evenings at the ...
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At our AGM for 2017, Honorary Life Memberships were presented to Roz Hart, Rob and Maureen Skeet and also Mike Gregson, in recognition of their great service to the organisation. Mike Gregson stepped down from the Council and from his role as Young Nats coordinator. Joan Sharpe joined the Council ...
Read more →Living in a Biodiversity Hotspot With Professor Kingsley Dixon The rich diversity of species, patchwork-quilted across the WA landscape just requires a new way of looking at that landscape and then the richness begins to engage you…. Professor Kingsley Dixon was raised in the wilds of Morley when much of ...
Read more →A number of members have had difficulty with finding a renewal form for 2017 and for your convenience a standalone form is provided on the website for those who could not use the form that came in the December issue of the Naturalist News provided to members. If you joined ...
Read more →Your newsletter(PDF) is now available from the members page. However you will have to see your e-mail advice for the new password for this year. We are hoping to trial a new system to give you the news via your monthly email without having to download the pdf.
Read more →To emphasise a shift in focus from nudibranchs to the myriad other members of the phylum Mollusca, our November guest speaker, Lisa Kirkendale, Curator of Molluscs at the WA Museum (WAM), rearranged her talk to be Other WA molluscs and nudibranchs. By doing so, Lisa was able to cover subtopics ...
Read more →Ecologist Val English presented us with a talk on mound springs at the November meeting. Having joined the Department of Parks & Wildlife in 1994, Val was responsible for setting up the flora survey database of endangered/threatened species; she is now Principal Ecologist with the Species and Communities Section.Mound springs ...
Read more →VASCULAR PLANTS Plant Species list from excursion to Neaves Road Asteraceae * Hypochaeris glabra Dasypogonaceae Dasypogon brommeliifolious Fabaceae Aotus cordifolia Gastrolobium ebracteolatum Jacksonia furcellata Droseraceae Drosera macrantha Drosera pulchella Thelypteridaceae Cyclosorus interruptus * Myrtaceae Eucalyptus camaldulensis Eucalyptus todtiana Eucalyptus rudis Melaleuca preissiana Astartea fascicularis Kunzea glabrescens Taxandria linearifolia Dilleniaceae Hibbertia perfoliata Proteaceae ...
Read more →We are excited to announce that for the first time, the DRB is presenting a day-time course on Natural History in the Perth Hills. You, or your friends, family and colleagues are welcome to enrol. Enrolments are on 6th February 2017. Dates: Four consecutive Friday afternoons starting on Friday 24th ...
Read more →The guest speaker for our August meeting was Margaret Larke and the topic was Kings Park. Margaret’s presentation took us through the history of Kings Park starting with its Indigenous Heritage, which dates back some 50,000 years. The land that now makes up the park was an important meeting and ...
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