Invitation to all Young Naturalists Club members New¦ The WA Museum invites YNC members to help us create a banksia mural which will be displayed in an exhibition in the New Museum for WA. Join us for a two-day program during the July school holidays where WA Museum scientists and ...
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Young Naturalists, All Branches We were very fortunate to have Daniel Boase-Jelinek, the Convenor of the Friends of Shenton Bushland, to take adult members and Young Nats through this area on Sunday, May 20. This bushland is a Protected Class A Conservation Reserve and was first listed 25 years ago, ...
Read more →Young Nats The Young Nats living in the northern suburbs were recently invited to join in two activities conducted or co-hosted by the Friends of North Ocean Reef-Iluka Foreshore, which is co-ordinated by Don Poynton, the Chairman of the Northern Suburbs Branch. In April the Young Nats participated in the ...
Read more →July 23 was a pretty wet and miserable day, but several young families and adults appeared regardless of the weather. We had just decided to go for a short walk collecting any plants, animals and plastic, when down came the rain. This happened 2-3 times so each time we scuttled ...
Read more →YOUNG NATURALISTS EXCURSION REPORT May 21 2017 Locals Kirsten Tullis and Russell Chambers joined Roz, Sophie (the dog), Steve and Rosie (the Young Nats!) for a really lovely walk in Lightning Swamp on May 21. Rain threatened; however we were really fortunate that the grey rainclouds moved over and the ...
Read more →Darwin Day, the birthday anniversary of Charles Darwin, is celebrated around the world on or around the 12th of February. The WA Naturalists’ Club has decided to begin our own tradition of celebrating Darwin Day and this year naturalists of all ages met, to learn a little about Darwin’s life, about evolution and ...
Read more →The Young Naturalists met entomologist David Knowles for an evening focussing on invertebrates at Star Swamp for our last event of 2012. This began with a presentation during which more than 20 Young Naturalists sat quietly listening as David described the major groups of invertebrates and showed photographic examples that ...
Read more →BirdLife Education Office, Rod Smith, met twelve Young Naturalists and their families at Herdsman Lake for an afternoon focussing on birds. Rod began the afternoon with a slide show of birds likely to be seen later in the day. Everyone enjoyed calling out the names of the birds they knew, ...
Read more →We had fantastic turn-out for our Young Naturalists’ Fungi Foray in June, when over 30 children, along with parents and grandparents, spent a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon at Bold Park. Melissa Mykytiuk, from the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (BGPA), who manage Perth’s two largest A-class reserves, Kings Park and ...
Read more →The Young Naturalists had another great turn out for our April excursion when 30 children met at the Western Australian Reptile Park in Henley Brook, to learn about reptiles. Gane Doyle Jnr started the afternoon with a brief instruction on what to do in the event of a snake bite. ...
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