Main Club, Young Nats 11 February 2024 This event was put in place to coincide with Darwin Day, a day to celebrate Charles Darwin’s birthday on 12 February 1809, and by promoting science in general. But more for the Club, it was an opportunity to explore the diversity of marine ...
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Main Club, 1 March 2024 Our speaker was Emerson (Em) Lamond, an amateur bryologist. A bryologist studies bryophytes, which are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. These are non-vascular plants, which means they have no roots or vascular tissue but instead absorb water and nutrients from the air through their surface. Because ...
Read more →2 February 2024 Our speaker was a well-known Perth botanist, Alex George, who has been a Club member since 1956. Some of Alex’s main interests have been the Orchids, the Verticordias, the Banksias, Dryandras and Synapheas, and the history of botanists in Western Australia. He has worked at the WA ...
Read more →Twenty-two people (14 members and eight visitors) gathered at the Henderson Environmental Centre adjacent to the Star Swamp Reserve on a fine, mild morning for a walk to view post-fire grasstrees and other flora. Leaders were Distinguished Professor Emeritus Byron Lamont, Christine Curry from the Northern Suburbs Branch and Friends ...
Read more →On Friday, 27 October, six (6) Club members, including a new member, met with excursion leader Jolanda at the Wongan Hills Visitor Centre. After introductions, the convoy set off for the Reynoldson Reserve, north of town. This reserve is renowned for its display of Verticordia, and the group was not ...
Read more →We acknowledge the Digital Life project and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions’ North West Shelf Flatback Turtle Conservation Program for creation of the 3D flatback turtle model. Main Club 1 September, 2023 We heard from two North West Shelf Flatback Turtle Conservation Program speakers. Tristan Simpson is their ...
Read more →Grasstrees of southwestern Australia Main Club, 6 October 2023 Distinguished Prof Emeritus Byron Lamont is well known to our club for his botanical work and previous fascinating talks. This year, his work was recognised with a lifetime achievement award from the International Association of Fire Ecology. He will travel to ...
Read more →Main Club 9 September 2023 There was a crash of thunder as we started our walk, but luckily, the sun came out, and the twelve of us enjoyed our walk in this beautiful Wandoo woodland halfway along the Brookton Highway. It was led by John Cresp, a naturalist and member ...
Read more →YOUNG NATURALISTS with MAiN Club – 6 August 2023 The weather was ideal for this year’s beach sweep, but unfortunately, only two families turned up! There were piles of sea wrack on the beach – mainly seagrass – but the variety of finds was a little disappointing, and some things ...
Read more →Our speaker was Darren Hamley, a multi-award-winning science teacher, environmentalist and wildlife rehabilitator. Darren teaches science to children in the Gifted and Talented Program at Willetton Senior High School, where he can give them some exciting extension work. He has them doing “proper” research – that is, starting with the ...
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