DARLING RANGE BRANCH APRIL EXCURSION REPORT This was a joint excursion with Friends of Jorgenson Park (FoJP) which is a very keen, but smallish, group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the one-time golf course to something like its original bushland status. Their ‘leader’ Joy explained to the 11 members and ...
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DARLING RANGE BRANCH MAY MEETING REPORT Members of DRB may have been forgiven in thinking that their May meeting was going to be a ‘flora-walk in the park’—Kalamunda National Park in fact—presented by Gooseberry Hill resident Ken Patterson. Perhaps they expected an evening of interesting observations of the flora and ...
Read more →Excursion March 2017 Thirteen members plus one visitor arrived at Faye Arcaro‘s four acre property “Botanic Obsession” in Jandakot on March 18 hoping to see lots of insect activity, especially native bees. Unfortunately the day was overcast and grey and activity was at a minimum. But Faye’s enthusiasm more than ...
Read more →MARCH Meeting 2017 Branch President, Mike Green, presented an illustrated talk on kangaroos in their garden, continuing a theme of focussing this year’s DRB talks on natural history in the Hills area. Kangaroos are herbivores that are native to Australia and its neighbouring islands. They are marsupial mammals of the ...
Read more →Faye Arcaro, photojournalist and enthusiastic advocate of organic horticulture, presented us with the first talk of the year, at our new venue. This was a well-attended meeting with as many visitors as members. There are more than 2000 native bee species in Australia and academic reference sources about them are ...
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 →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 →Prof Don Bradshaw presented a talk on this tiny, rare WA mammal that is neither a possum nor a devourer of honey. Professor Don Bradshaw, Chair of Zoology and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Animal Biology at UWA, presented a talk on Honey Possums to a well-attended meeting on ...
Read more →Our guest speaker for the first talk of 2015 was Dr Patrick Armstrong, Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Royal Society of WA. Patrick’s talk entitled “Darwin, Australia and Luck”, providing us with an historical perspective of the naturalist Charles Darwin, was timely ...
Read more →Research ecologist Dr Adrian Wayne’s discussion could have been titled ‘The ups and downs of Woylie populations in WA’ , for that is what has happened in recent years to these endearing little macropods, with several serious crashes that sent researchers scrambling for answers before it was too late. Adrian brought ...
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