Main Club, 2 September 2022 Dr Ana Sequeira spoke to us about the movements of megafauna in Shark Bay, known as Gathaaguda, by the traditional owners, the Malgana people. Ana moved to Western Australia from Portugal to do a PhD on Whale Sharks. Through that work, she developed a global ...
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Main Club, 7 October 2022 Our speaker was scientist and educator Bronwen Keighery. As lead botanist for the EPA for 15 years, Bronwen helped to develop native vegetation as a critical factor in environmental assessment. She and her husband Greg were founding members of the Perth branch of the Wildflower ...
Read more →Young Naturalists, Main Club 24th July 2022 We were lucky to have fine, calm weather for a beach sweep at South Cottesloe, led by Maureen Gardner, Steve Lofthouse and me. A good crowd turned up, about half of them non-members and a number of children. There were piles of fresh ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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.
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