Consider adding your observations to our member observation page. See WA Naturalists’ Club members’ observations iNaturalist Identifiers Survey What was the survey about? The December 2025 iNaturalist Identifiers Survey collected feedback from nearly 2,500 prolific identifiers (users with at least 2,000 identifications) to understand their motivations and challenges. For your ...
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All Branches, 27 April – 3 May 2026 The 2026 Notley Late Easter Camp was held between Monday, 27 April and Sunday, 3 May. The location was split between Fitzgerald River National Park and Bremer Bay. However, as our excursion included a visit to the Lake Magenta Nature Reserve on ...
Read more →Whole Club, 17- 19 October 2025 For this excursion, we had a goal to do a bat survey on the island, as I don’t think we had ever done one of these before. Ry Beaver volunteered to come to the island with his bat detector equipment: one Echo Meter Touch ...
Read more →NSB June Meeting: Highlights of the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp Members Gia Clarke, Arlene Quinn, Sylvia Tetlow and Don Poynton illustrated their personal highlights from the 2025 Notley Late Easter Camp which featured the Wellington Forest and Collie area. The fifteen members who attended stayed in Wellington Forest Cottages, ...
Read more →In June this year the Club was prompted by Fungimap to add its name to a letter to the relevant federal government ministers, urging them to ensure that Australia signs on the Fungal Conservation Pledge (FCP). Many scientists see it as a critical mechanism in achieving the goals and targets ...
Read more →Biotic Interactions – The Essence of Nature Conservation 16 April 2025 There was a good turnout for this year’s Serventy Memorial Lecture (SML), including many non-members. Don Poynton began by talking about the WA Naturalists’ Club, its origins in 1924 with the Serventy family, our branches, our major projects and ...
Read more →Long-term active Member and Honorary Life Member Otto Mueller passed away peacefully on March 17, 2025, at the age of 95. Otto Mueller(left) with Gordon Elliott (right) Image by Nadia Elliott Otto arrived in Perth from Germany with his young family in May 1971, and within a year, he and ...
Read more →Further Funding for the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands In December 2024, the state government provided a further funding allocation of AU$1.5 million to the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands to employ an officer to work with community groups, oversee weed control and restoration, and improve knowledge about the site. Darling Range ...
Read more →Founded in 1924 by prominent scientists, our Club is the longest-running natural history organisation in Western Australia and one of the oldest in Australia. As a volunteer organisation, the Club has promoted natural history to the wider community. Over the past 100 years, many, many thousands of West Australians who ...
Read more →Northern Suburbs Branch – 25 September 2024 GOLLY, how did we get lost so quickly?Soon after starting along the 10th Lighthorse Heritage Trail, we took a wrong turn, so we had to cut through the bush to find the path leading to the Yaberoo-Budjara Heritage Trail. Thank goodness for mobile ...
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