The Serventy Memorial Lecture is held every year by the WA Naturalists’ Club in honour of the outstanding contribution made by the Serventy family to Natural History in Australia and to our Club. The aim of the Serventy Memorial fund is to encourage young people to study natural history. Before ...
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Darwin Day, the birthday anniversary of Charles Darwin, is celebrated around the world on or around the 12th of February. The WA Naturalists’ Club has decided to begin our own tradition of celebrating Darwin Day and this year naturalists of all ages met, to learn a little about Darwin’s life, about evolution and ...
Read more →In October 2012, the Australian Naturalists’ Network (ANN) was held in Canberra – the seventh time since the first gathering in Alice Springs in 2000. 61 naturalists came from Chinchilla to Launceston, from King Island to Sale, Timboon to Geelong and including 14 from WANats, some of whom have attended ...
Read more →Searching for fungi near log at Nanga Bushcamp Twenty one Naturalists converged on the area on Friday 15 June. The weather had been fairly wet for the previous week. Our journey down to Nanga through a swathe of toppled branches and damaged forest trees showed us just how severe the previous ...
Read more →Fungi group is organising a Fungi weekend at Dwellingup -15-17 June 2012 at Nanga Bushcamp. Neale Bougher and the Fungi leaders from the Perth Urban Bushland fungi project will be conducting a Fungi weekend at Nanga bushcamp near Dwellingup. Activities will include morning forays searching for fungi in the area ...
Read more →Amazingly it was quite a horrible day, with clouds, murky water and blustery conditions. But we still had a very profitable morning and it just became a summer beach sweep. We were very lucky again to have Dr Anne Brearley volunteer her time again, and she started the children off ...
Read more →After the AGM, Anne Brearley gave us an interesting talk about Norfolk Island, which she visited in 2011. The tall pines planted at Cottesloe are our connection with this small Pacific island. The first Norfolk Island Pines in Cottesloe were probably the ones planted in John Street in 1917 by ...
Read more →The 2012 programme of events for the Main Club has now been published. Some dates and speakers have yet to be finalised. See what's on in 2012 …
Read more →DEC Volunteer of the Year 2011 was awarded to the specimen mounting team at the WA Herbarium. This team included 3 Western Australian Naturalists; Kate Creed, Patricia Gurry and Ruby Johnson. For part of the year the team had to work at Kings Park during the Herbarium shift their work ...
Read more →In 2010 former WA Naturalist Club councillor Cate Tauss found a new species of Ptilotus (Mulla Mulla). The new plant species has been unearthed in suburban Kenwick of all places. Western Australian Environment Minister Bill Marmion said the discovery was the most significant botanical find in the Perth metropolitan area ...
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