MARCH: WESTERN SHIELD PROJECT Globally unique and one of the largest threat abatement programs in the world, the Western Shield program aims to halt the decline of Western Australia’s native fauna. Such is the task of zoologist Dr Michelle Drew from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) who ...

Twenty students from Year Six and two teachers, from Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott, were taken on a nature walk around their property by an expert group of DRB members. Joff Start and Mike Green took half of the group bird watching and the other half were led by ...

Thanks to the Shire of Mundaring, members of the DRB attended a free, three-hour workshop in November on understanding the birds in their garden. It was presented by DRB Chairperson Rachel Green, and Mike Green (DRB Treasurer and bird enthusiast.) Seventy-two people attended and it fostered a love and knowledge ...

  The Twin Creeks conservation area, run by the Friends of the Porongurup Ranges, is a stunning area of rich and rare flora and fauna. Thirty-three members of the Darling Range Branch visited it on the September long weekend last year and were bowled over by the number and diversity ...

What a great night this was (Friday 8 December 2017). More than 80 people turned up to hear Simon Cherriman speak to the DRB about his research into the ecology of Wedge-tailed Eagles, and it was obvious from the start that this was no passing interest on the way to ...

The November meeting began with a short presentation on Arctic terns by Kevn Griffiths. These long-lived birds migrate from high latitudes of the Arctic regions to breed in Antarctica annually, travels that can account for more than two million kilometres over a lifetime that can be thirty years. The focus ...

There was a surprise on our DRB excursion on 20th October to the Alan Anderson walk-trail in Walliston. We stumbled across a cleared area which had become absolutely full of wildflowers. There were so many flowers that we failed to identify or log them all; we gasped at the abundance. ...

It was a cloudy, damp day as eleven of us set off on October 7 with the Deputy Principal of Good Shepherd School, to do the first survey of their 12-acre bush block in Arbuthnot St, Kelmscott. The DRB has committed to doing a survey every two months until the ...

Thirty-two DRB members came to a members-only event at the Greens’ Land-for-Wildlife and Streamcare property in the Perth Hills on August 26. They started with a wildflower quiz. Forty-nine Western Australian flowering plants, including five with significant conservation status, had been named and labelled in the property prior to people’s ...