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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Main Club 4 Feb 2022 Our speaker was botanist Mark Brundrett. Mark is Adjunct Associate Professor at UWA and Research Associate Professor at the WA Herbarium. He spoke about why the South West of WA is a biodiversity hotspot and why the flora is unique globally. To be a hotspot, ...

Main Club Excursion 10 Oct 2021 A mixture of members and visitors gathered at the Lions Lookout car park on the sunny morning of October 10, 2021, to learn about the pollination of native plants from Prof Byron Lamont and Dr Phil Groom. As is usual on such excursions with ...

Main Club 5 November 2021 Our speaker was Dr Amanda Ridley, from the Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the University of WA. Mandy has been conducting behavioural ecology research for the last 22 years, studying Babblers in the Middle East and in the Kalahari, before setting up a Western Magpie ...

PARTICIPANTS OBSERVATIONS Main Club, 10–13th September 2021 On Friday, 10th September, eight members and one visitor met for an afternoon walk in Christmas Rock nature reserve just north of the caravan park. This reserve contains a rich diversity of flora typical of the laterite soil of the region. Luckily, Jonica ...

Main Club, 1st October 2021 The speaker at our October meeting was Penny Hussey AM, a past president and long-time member of the WA Naturalists’ Club. Penny is very well qualified to speak on this subject as she has worked on roadside vegetation and Land for Wildlife whilst in CALM/DEC; ...

Main Club 3rd September 2021 At our September meeting, our speaker was botanist Professor Byron Lamont. Byron entertained us with the pollination of the plants of South-Western Australia. There are three main groups of pollinators: insects, birds and mammals. Each plant species has unique traits designed to improve pollination efficiency: ...