Our speaker tonight is Dr Mathew Hourston, who some of you may know from his YouTube channel 'Look Closer' where he films and talks about some of smaller organisms that can be found in nature, with a particular interest in our beautiful, endemic peacock spiders. Mat describes his experiences as ...
Species with low reproductive rates, long generation times, and restricted ranges are particularly susceptible to climate change. One proposed solution for these species is assisted colonisation - the intentional translocation of species outside their historic range to mitigate a threat. Australia’s rarest reptile, the Western Swamp Tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina), is ...
Land use modification, climate drying, and invasive species threaten the oblong turtle (Chelodina oblonga), a freshwater species endemic to south-western Australia. The extent of impact of these stressors on C. oblonga is not known but likely includes increased wildlife-vehicle incidents and predation, and reduced availability and quality of nesting and aquatic habitat. ...
Please complete the RSVP if you intend to attend on the night as there is a restricted limit in venue due to COVID-19. If you have completed the RSVP but can’t attend because you are unwell, please call the Office or RSVP again with 'not coming'status. Dr Leanda Mason will ...
Shortly before COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, the RV Falkor research vessel, owned by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, visited the coast of WA to explore our off-shore deep-sea canyons. A team led by Dr Nerida Wilson of the WA Museum used remotely operated underwater vehicles to explore the ...
A presentation introducing a selection of little known WA eucalypt species, unknown in cultivation and with high ornamental appeal plus many other attributes. Malcolm French is an agriculturalist, book publisher, associate researcher and honorary curator of the genus eucalyptus at the WA Herbarium, bush traveler cum eucalypt chaser, and received ...