NS Branch September 2018 Meeting Pearls have fascinated people for thousands of years, no more so than at our September meeting when members and visitors were still glued to the words of our guest speaker, Michael Seifert-Weiss after one and a half hours. Michael’s presentation covered a wide range of ...

NS Branch September 2018 Despite Trigg Bushland Reserve being one of the best known natural areas in the northern suburbs, only a handful of our 19 GOLLY walkers had previously visited the section north of Karrinyup Road. While the section on the south side of the road is dominated by ...

NSB August Golly Walk Planning Golly walks to see orchids at their best is not easy when the dates have to be set almost a year ahead. And so it turned out for our visit to St Michaels Park in Connolly. By the third week of August in 2017 there ...

NSB August Meeting Report Radio-tracking is used for real-time survivorship and movement monitoring of translocated animals. Photo: Saul Cowen Kelly Rayner, who spoke to us in August, is a member of the Department of Biodiversity Conservation & Attraction (DBCA) translocation team working towards reintroducing native mammals to Dirk Hartog Island, ...

NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH JULY MEETING REPORT. The term “snake charmer” took on a new meaning when long-time Club member, Gane Doyle Jnr. entertained his audience with stories and slithering exhibits at our July meeting. Gane and his father, Gane Snr. have had a long association with the Club and were ...

Northen Suburbs Branch, July 2018 It was very pleasing to have four new faces on our walk, including two who saw the event on Meetup. Due to the possibility of a storm in the late morning/early afternoon we adjusted the walk to include an option of a one-way, downhill excursion ...

GOLLY! The Baigup Wetlands lived up to its name midway through our planned walk! The forecast of up to 30mm of rain deterred most of our regulars but first-time walkers, Terri and Kim Richardson, joined Alex Saar and myself as we started our expedition in fine weather. I was surprised ...

Kit Prendergast’s great talk underlined the evolution of the bee and the mutual relationship (win-win) that drove the diversification of the most successful plant group (Angiosperms: flowering plants) over the past 125 million years. Kit is a PhD student at Curtin University where her study involves looking at European Honeybee ...

Northern Suburbs Branch Lake Goollelal is the southernmost water body of a chain of lakes and swamps that make up the wetlands in the Yellagonga Regional Park. It is surrounded by remnants of fringing paperbark woodland, Jarrah-Marri-Banksia open woodland and scattered Tuart. The lake, although shallow by world standards, is ...

Northern Suburbs Branch As most of us are aware, animal and plant biodiversity and the associated ecological processes underpin the health of our environment and therefore its ability to support human needs. Species diversity is changing globally and locally, but the complexity of ecological communities hampers a general understanding of ...