Twenty two Naturalists met at the Hill Street entrance to the high, western portion of Kalamunda National Park on Sunday May 22nd, where they were spoilt by pre-walk scones, jam and cream kindly prepared by Judy and Andre du Plessis. A gentle circuit introduced participants to this section of the ...

Dr Mikael Siversson, Curator of Palaeontology at the WA Museum, was our guest speaker for the May meeting and presented a talk on the Australian megafauna. To set the scene Mikael began with an introduction to plate tectonics and briefly covered the geological mechanisms that create, destroy and drive the ...

Despite the low water, that exposed the shallow thrombolite edges of the lake, members and friends of DRB, had an exciting day at Lake Richmond, Rockingham on the 16th April. We assembled in the morning at the wonderful buildings of the Naragebup Regional Eco Centre at 10 a.m. for a ...

Michael Buzza’s “Museum of Natural History” in Guildford, is just that. From the metre long skull of an ICHTHYOSAURUS [found in Dorset, England in 1986], to a pair of Mammoth tusks, from a branch showing 20 differently coloured Budgerigars, to the rare pale form of the New Zealand Kiwi, the ...

On February 20th over thirty people gathered at Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Rehabilitation Centre to see first hand how their operation works. This was a follow up to our first meeting of the year in which Zara Kiveli and Chris Phillips had explained the plight of Cockatoos and told us what ...