COVID 19 pandemic has caused a scary human health crisis of global dimension. The pandemic has already killed over 5.9 million people and there are still over 418 million confirmed cases battling infections across nations. In Australia, the total number of confirmed cases is close to 3 million with over ...
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One of our members, JOHN GORDON LEWIS, passed away peacefully on 8 January 2022, in the company of his daughter Sue. Sue said that he enjoyed his walks and travels with the Naturalists’ Club enormously over the past twenty years. She also said that his was a long, adventurous and ...
Read more →Australia has unique natural biodiversity. Reports indicate that about 94% of amphibians, 46% of birds, 93% of flowering plants, 69% of mammals and 93% of reptiles in Australia are endemic. In addition to climate change, the risk of harmful exotic invasive species (biological threats) entering, establishing, and spreading is the ...
Read more →Australia has never contributed a major food crop to the world. The only Australian native plant food developed and cropped on a large scale is macadamia nut. Though there are hundreds of Australian native plants that have been used as a source of food for a long time, none of ...
Read more →Western Australia’s 2021-22 Budget has highlighted a record general government operating surplus estimated at $5.6 billion, and a $2.8 billion operating surplus forecast for 2021-22. The estimated 2021-22 Federal Budget deficit is $106.6 billion. We are accustomed to receiving annual budgets from the governments. As a budget is a financial ...
Read more →We live in a truly blessed region of the planet, which is known for its clean and green environment as well as for its unique biodiversity, with a significant number of species endemic to the region. Even our capital city, Perth, is considered the wildlife capital of the world because ...
Read more →Sunday, 14 February 2021 The fine, warm weather for our postponed snorkelling event was in stark contrast to the rain which lead to the cancellation on the original date. By chance, the move from the 7th to the 14th brought the event closer to Darwin’s birthday, the 12th February. Eighteen ...
Read more →Contents Australasian Grebes – Starting a Family………..2 Ruddy Turnstones – Perfectly Camouflaged …3 Bynoe’s Prickly Gecko……………………………………4 Busselton Naturalists’ Work at Ambergate Reserve……………………………………….5
Read more →Barbara York Main OAM, UWA Adjunct Professor, School of Animal Biology was co-Patron for the WA Naturalists’ Club from 1999, first with her husband Bert Main and later with Prof. Lyn Beazley. She was a fellow Club naturalist with her husband—and also with Harry Butler, Dom Serventy, Rica Erickson, John ...
Read more →Slime Mould Aficionado and Club Member Margaret Brims became known to the Fungi Group of the club in 2004 when she provided much needed expertise on a group of organisms that we came across during our fungi forays. They weren’t exactly fungi, but while looking for new things we found ...
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