Young Nats and Main Club March Excursion A small but enthusiastic group of members came to the beach for snorkelling on Sunday 10 March. Initially the weather was grey and lowering but it fined up to a beautiful day with sunshine and 29°C. There are a lot of exposed rocks ...
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MAIN CLUB April Meeting Our speaker was Professor Kevin Kenneally AM, of the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. Kevin has conducted research on the plants and animals of the Kimberley for more than 40 years. A Life Member of the WA Naturalists’ Club, he has been president of the ...
Read more →Main Club March Meeting Our speaker was geologist Mike Freeman. Mike graduated from Adelaide University and has 50 years’ experience in geology, including teaching the public about geology and landforms, and being involved in the Geological Survey of WA and land-use planning on the Swan Coastal Plain. Mike talked to ...
Read more →Our speaker, following the AGM, was Ryan Glowacki, Bushland Manager for the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Ryan began by talking about Quendas, which were until recently considered to be a subspecies of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Now they have been assigned their own species: Isoodon fusciventer. Before ...
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 →Main Club November Meeting Our speaker, Mikael Siversson, is the head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the WA Museum. He manages the Palaeontology collection of 1.5 million specimens at the museum, which contains for example: stromatolites from the Pilbara, fish from Gogo in the Kimberley and ...
Read more →Main Club September 2018 Meeting Dr Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum, originally worked on Riversleigh marsupial fossils for his PhD. When he first started as the Mammalian Curator at the museum he went through a box of specimens of the Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) and ...
Read more →Main Club October 2018 Meeting Long-term Club member Kevin Coate spoke to us about his visits to Christmas Island dating back to 1990. The island lies 2600km north-west of Perth and is formed by an extinct volcano which rises more than 4000m from the ocean floor, reaching a height of ...
Read more →Main Club August Excursion On Friday 17th August, a group of 12 naturalists from three of our branches arrived at Mt Gibson Sanctuary around midday, planning to go on our first excursion at 2pm. We decided to walk up to the quartz-stone ridge not far from our camp site, which has ...
Read more →Main Branch August Meeting Report. We welcomed back to the Club, Robert Powell, who is well-known to many of us and who’s back in Perth for a few weeks, having been living in England since 2010. Robert is known for his excellent books Leaf and Branch and Growing Locals. He ...
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