A HUB FOR EXPLORING AND RECORDING NATURE IN YOUR BACKYARD This COVID-19 isolation is a tough gig. The good news is that being stuck in your backyard provides a wealth of things to engage and inspire you. You’ll wonder why you didn’t do it before. Nature is not closed and ...
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In the light of the current restrictions on group gatherings, interstate and regional travel and exclusions of public access to many national parks and state forests, the organising committee of the Australian Naturalists Network has very reluctantly decided to postpone the get-together planned for this September in Stanthorpe. Although this ...
Read more →From the Field Terry has shared some lovely images on the Facebook group this past month. He writes: “The Stirling Range National Park suffered a devastating fire that began by lightning strikes on December 26 last year, burning through approximately 50 000 hectares of diverse habitat, leaving another 65 000 ...
Read more →Perth NRM and Birdlife Australia have joined forces to develop a new website to get Perth residents to begin rewilding their gardens to encourage the return of native flora, fauna (particularly birds!) and important pollinators throughout the urban and peri-urban environment. The ReWild Perth website will allow users to register ...
Read more →The Cocanarup Timber Reserve is 15 km south-west of Ravensthorpe and encompasses 9000 ha of native vegetation, including approximately 1000 ha of mature salmon gum woodland. It lies at the heart of a wider surrounding area of 65,000 ha of bushland stretching south to the Fitzgerald River National Park and ...
Read more →as we all head into 2019 natural history activities. I’m attaching the Minutes GM2018 Anglesea held in Anglesea towards the end of ANN2018. ANN2018 was highly successful and greatly enjoyed by the 74 participants from all states and territories except for the Northern Territory. The Get-Together was hosted by Victoria under ...
Read more →A botanical journey from Toodyay through New Norcia to Mt Lesueur Shire of Toodyay Curator Margie Eberle The exhibition follows the original tracks taken from Toodyay via New Norcia northwards to Mt Lesueur by James Drummond 1786-1863, Western Australia’s first government botanist, followed by Charles Gardner 1896-1970, many years later. ...
Read more →Kings Park will again light up from 8 – 11 February, to tell the story of our unique biodiversity as part of Perth Festival. This year there is a new, on-ground component called Boodja Djena: Ground Beneath Our Feet, and you can be involved. Many Nats members are already doing ...
Read more →‘Fungi-gals’ Sapphire Mc Mullen and Roz Hart are arranging to print a special order of gorgeous mycologically-themed clothing in collaboration with a high quality supplier of batik. As those of you who purchased the fungi shirts initially conceived for the 2011 Fungimap conference are well aware, these cotton clothes are ...
Read more →Club member Pam Ghirardi says she is delighted to now be opening the Gould League’s Herdsman Wildlife Centre on the first Sunday of every month from 1 to 4pm, beginning in June (which will be the 4th—on the long weekend). It is a wonderful place to explore, so she encourages ...
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