Main Club, 5th August 2022 In the absence of our scheduled speaker, the breach was kindly filled by Damian Lettoof, who was to give the short focus talk. Instead, he gave a full-length talk on his PhD research at Curtin University about how urbanisation has affected Tiger Snakes in and ...
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8 July 2022 Forty members and visitors gathered outside the Herdsman Lake Discovery Centre, feeling optimistic and ready to look for frogs around the lake’s edges. As it was still quite light, our leader and frog expert, Paul Doughty, spent a few moments describing some of the common frogs of ...
Read more →1st July 2022 Our speaker was Paul Doughty, Curator of Herpetology at the WA Museum, whose interests are mainly frogs and geckos. He focused on the frogs of the Southwest. He said frog species are relatively easy to distinguish because, as a rule, you can use the calls instead of ...
Read more →Main Club, 3rd June 2022 Our speaker was Bernie Masters, president of the Busselton Naturalists’ Club for the last 40 years. Bernie is a biologist and geologist who has worked in environmental assessment and mine site rehabilitation for many years and has had personal experience with fire management. Bernie pointed ...
Read more →Observations on the final walk in the Notley Late Easter excursion series for 2022
Read more →Coordinator, Sue Conlan, showed us some of the revegetation areas that the Friends of Mosman Park Bushland has worked on tirelessly for decades – planting, watering, mulching and weeding – to bring back the biodiversity that used to exist before European settlement.
Read more →Joanne, a Senior Environmental Officer with (DWER) said there was a need for baseline information before implementing WA’s Plan for Plastics, which began in January this year, with bans on certain items and promoted single-use plastics. The main message for us is the importance of reducing our use of plastics, re-using bags and containers where possible, and recycling what can properly be recycled.
Read more →Main Club, 1st April 2022 Our speaker was Dr Jane Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Conservation Sciences at Murdoch University and Director of NatureLink Perth. NatureLink Perth is a community of practice working together to integrate nature into the city and connect people to nature, with other benefits such ...
Read more →Main Club 15 – 17 October 2021 The WA Naturalists’ Club has a cottage on Cooleenup Island at Yunderup. The Yunderup Field Station (or Nature Observatory) has been the base for many field trips since it was built in 1984 (officially opened —1985). Cooleenup is one of several low-lying islands ...
Read more →Main Club 13 Feb 2022 This event is rapidly becoming an annual favourite of mine. At 8.30 am on Sunday the 13th, we expected lovely weather for our visit to the Omeo wreck in Coogee. OK, Darwin Day was officially the day before, but that didn’t seem to be a ...
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