Eddy Wajon’s talk on re-establishing functional ecosystems at Chingarrup Sanctuary was an amazing story of bringing back to life a one-time farming plot. The sanctuary forms part of the Gondwana Link stretch of conservation land and was purchased fifteen years ago after the previous owner breached the conditions of the ...
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Darling Range Branch
DARLING RANGE BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT AUGUST: KELMSCOTT – TEACHING CHILDREN BIRDWATCHING Our nature survey and walk at Good Shepherd Primary school in Kelmscott in August was called off at the last minute owing to rain. However, instead, the Deputy Principal, Diane Newman, invited us to talk to the Year 6 ...
Read more →Ashleigh Wolfe, a PhD candidate at Curtin University, presented us with a lively and interactive talk about reptiles. The presentation broadly covered reptile species most likely encountered in and around Perth and a study of people’s perception and responses to reptiles. Her postgraduate studies into ‘How living in the city ...
Read more →The recent Queens Birthday Honours list included two Club members: Penny Hussey and Kim Sarti. We offer them both our congratulations. Details as follows: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia Ms Bridgit Mary Hussey For significant service to conservation and land management practices in Western ...
Read more →DRB June 2017 Meeting Mick Davis from the Shire of Kalamunda was our guest speaker for the June meeting about spiders. Mick, a graduate of Curtin University in Natural Resources management, is head of the Shire’s Environmental Friends group and his talk continues the theme of focussing on natural history ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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