On Sunday, a beautiful clear day dawned with a light wind, making it a slightly chilly morning. Thirteen club members (from all our branches) and five visitors met at 10 am at the carpark on Old Plains Road where our eyes were immediately drawn to the Common White Spider Orchid ...
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Whole Club, 13 July 2024 100 members and guests gathered to share in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Club. Displays of the 50th anniversary of Tomato Lake clearing, and pictures of club history were shown as guests enjoyed pre-lunch drinks. Mike and Mandy Bamford were tasked with keeping everything on track as ...
Read more →… a story by Dom Serventy Dr Dom Serventy (1904-1988) was a founding member of the WA Naturalists’ Club. The following article is a story by Dr Dom Serventy that first appeared in the Naturalist News, June 1974, for the 50th anniversary celebrations and titled “Field Trips 50 Years Ago”. ...
Read more →The Club launched its Centenary celebrations with a Free Family Discovery Morning at Tomato Lake, Kewdale on Sunday 7 April. Tomato Lake was chosen as the venue because it had also played a significant role in the club’s Jubilee year in 1974. At this site 50 years ago that the ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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