The image has been provided as part of the Rakali Community Survey. This new citizen science project is designed to improve knowledge of this elusive native rodent whose current distribution, habitat needs and threats are poorly known. As a top-order predator, rakali may be useful indicators of healthy waterways, and ...
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Peel Inlet from Murray-Serpentine delta— Photo:The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation The Naturalists Club has a cottage on Cooleenup Island on the eastern edge of the Murray River Delta Islands of the Peel Inlet. Club members erected the building in 1983 and it is still decorated in a charming ...
Read more →Mick Davis from the City of Kalamunda showed us a new mobile app for use with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). Called BioCollect, it enables us as citizen scientists to immediately upload photos and other records of living things to the online data bank of the Atlas. The ALA ...
Read more →The weather looked threatening but a group of six naturalists (including a new member) braved the forecast on July 15 and met at the Mount Observation picnic area. This is in the Wandoo National Park, some 80km east of Perth. After a cuppa (and a sprinkle of rain) we set off ...
Read more →Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum spoke to us about dune mobility and geo-hazards. In particular, he referred to the mobile sand dunes of our Midwest coast and their impacts on infrastructure. Mike has worked in some very remote and lonely places, in a wide variety ...
Read more →There is nothing like the announcement of a fungi foray to bring together the hard-core ‘mushroomers’, the curious, and those who just enjoy a day in the bush. Jolanda organised a weekend foray at ‘Cypress Farm’, the property of Kingsley Dixon and Lionel Johnston, on the western scarp between Waroona ...
Read more →Main Club June 2017 Allan Burbidge talked to us about two critically endangered, ground-dwelling parrots: the Western Ground Parrot and the Night Parrot. Allan is a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and over the last 30 years has carried out biological surveys and studied ...
Read more →Main Club May 2017 Our speaker for May, Julianne Waldock, is a technical officer at the WA Museum, working with spiders and myriapods (centipedes, millipedes etc.). The majority of her research has been on spider taxonomy, as well as some centipede taxonomy. Julianne began with four uncommon and unusual spiders ...
Read more →Main Club MARCH Meeting Report The speaker at the March meeting was Dr Jane Chambers, Academic Chair for Environmental Science and Environmental Management and Sustainability at Murdoch University. With over 30 years of experience in wetland research, management and restoration in WA and internationally, Jane has also served as Deputy ...
Read more →APRIL Meeting 2017 Dr Ben Miller, fire ecologist and Director of Science at Kings Park, has worked in areas such as fire ecology, restoration ecology, rare plant conservation and ecosystem management. Ben’s talk looked into the role that fire ecology plays in the management of bushland in Kings Park. Most ...
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