Murdoch Branch Guest Speakers – Recorded Talks
Murdoch Branch have introduced live-streaming our guest speaker monthly talks, which you can watch anytime from our Facebook page.
2024 Guest Speakers
7 Nov 2024 – Carnaby’s Crusader Dean Arthurell
3 Oct 2024 – Alex George – Musings from my garden
5 Sept 2024 – Dr Eddy Wajon – Benefits of Growing Natives: Plants for Gardens and Large Landscapes
1 Aug 2024 – Megan Barnes – The power of a conservation detection dog team for threatened flora
4 July 2024 – Thilo Krueger – How citizen scientists and social media helped tripling the species number of the Drosera microphylla complex
6 June 2024 – Dr Shane Turner – Exposing the seedy secrets of Western Australian native plants
2 May 2024 – Greg Keighery – Threatened Ecological Communities in WA – State and Federal
5 April 2024 – Margaret Langley – iNaturalist as a tool to identify Native Wildflowers (and Weeds)
7 March 2024 – Jean and Fred Hort – Recent Observations: Flora and Fauna
1 February 2024 – Jane Scott – Wildflowers and Wetland Plants of the Margaret River Catchment!
2023 Guest Speakers
2 November 2023 – Keith Lightbody -Wildflower Macro Photography
5 October 2023 – Daniel Jan Martin – Forests Atlas plus more
7 September 2023 – Dr Sarah Sapsford – Saving the Marri
3 August 2023 – Dr Paul Gibbard (UWA) – The Lost Journal of Theodore Leschenault: French botanist and collector in WA
6 July 2023 – Dr Tony Start – Mistletoes of WA
1 June 2023 – Bronwen Keighery – Bushland Plants and Climate Change
4 May 2023 – Dylan Korczynsky – It’s all about timing: seed bank dynamics and recruitment of Hakea victoria in the fire-prone Fitzgerald River National Park
6 April 2023 – Eddy Wajon – Lord Howe Island
2 March 2023 – Michael Just – Overcoming barriers to the use of native seed in ecological restoration