The Fungi book presentation at the Main October meeting was the final step in a very special project that we can all be very proud of. Our Club enabled this project, which would never have happened without its involvement. The WA Naturalists’ Club, with partners like the UBC, has taken ...
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In October the main branch was lucky to get Greg and Bronwen Keighery along to talk about WA wildflowers, the focus of their working lives since the 1970s. Greg has worked as a scientist for Kings Park and WA government (CALM, then DPaW, and now DBCA i.e. Dept. Biodiversity, Conservation ...
Read more →On Saturday morning 7 October, 15 eager people met in Lesueur National Park for an excursion to see the wildflowers and hear Professor Hans Lambers explain about Australia’s old geological history, the geo-sequence of the dunes, and our vegetation’s clever adaption to the poor soils and harsh climate. Wish you ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
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