Sunday, 14 February 2021 The fine, warm weather for our postponed snorkelling event was in stark contrast to the rain which lead to the cancellation on the original date. By chance, the move from the 7th to the 14th brought the event closer to Darwin’s birthday, the 12th February. Eighteen ...
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12 February 2021 The most significant and important memorial to Charles Darwin in Western Australia is the Charles Darwin Reserve. It is 68,600 hectares (roughly 20km by 36km) and is located 60km east of Perenjori on the west side of the Great Northern Highway between Wubin and Paynes Find (355km ...
Read more →Our speaker, Alan Needham, is a retired biologist specialising in marsupials, with a great interest in evolution and the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. Alan quotes geneticist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, who said “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Alan began with Darwin as a child ...
Read more →Nick Cook, Coordinator of Friends of Lake Claremont, led a group of 16 people (11 members and 5 visitors) around Lake Claremont. While we walked, Nick talked to us about the ecology and natural history of the area and the story of the amazing rehabilitation that has been achieved there. ...
Read more →Main Club November 2020 Our speaker was Anthony Santoro, a PhD candidate at Murdoch University. For his Honours studies on the Oblong Turtle, Chelodina oblonga, Anthony surveyed thirty-five wetlands in the South West, involving about 1500 turtles. These turtles (we previously called them tortoises, but have adopted the American nomenclature) ...
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Read more →18 Sept 2020 On Friday 18 September at 2pm in the afternoon, the weather was sunny and it appeared to be a beautiful afternoon. Eighteen people from the Western Australian Naturalists’ Club and the Wildflower Society of Western Australia were met by Jolanda at the Kukerin Caravan Park, where she ...
Read more →OCTOBER 2020 Our speaker, Dr Leanda Mason of Curtin University, is, in her own words “Advocate for the Conservation of Non-charismatic Species”. She completed her PhD on the urban ecology of trapdoor spiders and their kin, to better understand how we might conserve them for future generations. Her thesis was ...
Read more →Main Club September 2020 The Faceless Cusk. The goggle-eyed Cockatoo Squid. Glass sponges. A living “swirl of spaghetti”. These are some of the truly weird and wonderful creatures that we met at the September meeting. Our speaker was Dr Nerida Wilson, Research Scientist at the WA Museum and Manager of ...
Read more →Main Club August 2020 Our speaker was Malcolm French, an agriculturalist, book publisher, associate researcher and Honorary Curator of the genus Eucalyptus at the WA Herbarium. He is a bush traveller and eucalypt chaser and received an OAM in 2015 for Conservation in Agriculture. Malcolm is now a volunteer at ...
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