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List of Australian Field Naturalists' Clubs
This is a list of Australia's field naturalist clubs. These natural history and conservation societies are dedicated to the study, appreciation and conservation of the natural environment in their local regions. Australia has a long field naturalist club history, with the earliest club, the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, being founded in 1880.[1]
Victoria
Victoria holds the largest number of regional field naturalist clubs in Australia.
Name | Year | Location | Notes | External links |
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Field Naturalists Club of Victoria | 1880 | Blackburn | The oldest still running field naturalist club in Australia, being founded in 1880. The club has published a journal, The Victorian Naturalist bimonthly since 1884. The club is situated in Blackburn, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.[1] The club serves as a parent organisation to many field naturalist clubs across Victoria, hosting yearly events, assisting in conservation efforts and acting as a leading body for the movement in the state. The club has been awarding the Australian Natural History Medallion to individuals who have made the most meritorious contribution to Australian Natural History, since 1940.[2] | Club website |
Ballarat Field Club and Science Society (defunct) | 1882-1918 | Ballarat | Predecessor of the Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat, which now maintains the club's archives. It was the second founded field naturalist club in Victoria, behind the state club. | |
Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat | 1952 | Ballarat | The club was founded as a continuation of the Ballarat Field Club and Science Society (1882-1918), acting as a repository for the society's records.[3] The club hosts face-to-face meetings, excursions, camps and conservation activities throughout the year.[4] The club has also published the monthly Ballarat Naturalist since 1974.[5] | Club website |
Bendigo Field Naturalists Club | 1945 | Bendigo | The club has published the monthly field naturalist magazine, The Whirrakee since 1979.[6][7] The club has also previously published The Bendigo Naturalist from 10 September 1945 to the early 1950's.[8] | Club website |
Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club | 1976 | Castlemaine | Alongside regular meetings and excursions, the club organises vegetation and bird surveys, as well as weed control and roadside clean up days in the local region.[9] The club has published the monthly newsletter the Castlemaine Naturalist since 1976.[10] | Club website |
Geelong Field Naturalists Club (defunct) | 1880-1932 | Geelong | The club published the The Wombat: Journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club from 1895-1902[11] , as well as its successor, The Geelong Naturalist: The Journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club until 1931.[12] | The Wombat |
Geelong Field Naturalists Club | 1961 | Geelong | Alongside regular meetings, excursion and camps, the club publishes the quarterly Geelong Naturalist: journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists Club[13][14]. The club has no official ties to its predecessor. | Club Website |
Peninsula Field Naturalists' Club | 1952 | Frankston andMornington Peninsula | Founded as a junior group of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, by members of the parent organisation.[15] Has undertaken extensive observations The club has published the Peninsula Field Naturalists' Club Newsletter on a quarterly basis since 2011.[16] The club's emblem is the rabbit's ears orchid (Thelymitra antennifera).[17] | Club website |
Portland Field Naturalists Club | 1945 | Portland | The club hosts monthly meetings and excursions around the local area, including Mount Richmond National Park, Lower Glenelg National Park and Cobboboonee National Parks.[18][19] They publish a monthly newsletter that discusses recent excursions and observations.[20] The club has published the Portland Field Naturalists Club Newsletter since 1968 and the Birds of the Portland District (2007 and 2019).[21] | Club webpage |
Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club | 1960 | Latrobe Valley | The club hosts monthly meetings, excursions and field camps and a bimonthly magazine, the Latrobe Valley Naturalist.[22][23] The club emblem is the flying duck-orchid (Caleana major).[24] | Club website |
Maryborough Field Naturalists Club | 1951 | Maryborough | The club hosts monthly meetings and excursions.[25][26] The club has published the naturalist history guide and trail-book Exploring Maryborough & district (1988).[27] The club has a close working relationship with the Bendigo and Castlemaine field naturalist clubs, with the three clubs jointly publishing several naturalist guidebooks and CDs. The club has been instrumental to expanding protected reserves in the area, including the founding of the Winifred Waddel Wildflower Sanctuary (1960), Bell's Swamp (1975), Clune's Swamp (1976) and Paddys Ranges State Park (1989).[28] | Club webpage |
Ringwood Field Naturalists Club | 1961 | Ringwood | The club hosts monthly meetings, excursions and field camps and a biyearly magazine, The Whistler.[29] Previously, the club published The Ringwood Field Naturalist, which ran from 1995 to 2015.[30] | Club website |
Upper Goulburn Field Naturalists Club | 1978 | Alexandra | The club hosts monthly meetings and field trips.[31] | Club webpage |
Anglesea Aireys Inlet Society for the Protection of Flora & Fauna (Angair) | 1969 | Anglesea | The club is dedicated to protecting our indigenous flora and fauna, hosting monthly committee meetings, excursions and various conservation activities.[32] Since 1969, the society has hosted the Angair Nature Show, a wildflower and art show weekend, which celebrates indigenous flora and fauna and funds conservations efforts in the Inlet.[33] The society has previously provided conservation advice to government and community bodies who are developing in the area, including working with Parks Victoria and the Surf Coast Mountain Bike Club to develop non-invasive biking paths throughout the protected land.[34] They also host revegetation days with local school groups to propagate native plants in the area.[35] | Club website |
Bairnsdale & District Field Naturalists Club | 1960 | Bairnsdale | The club hosts monthly general meetings, field excursions and bushwalks. The club publishes the quarterly newsletter, The Clematis.[36] They have also published the Orchids of East Gippsland — A Field Guide (2014), which includes much of the club's survey work and observations of rare native orchids in the East Gippsland area from the foundation of the club, including across Wilsons Promontory, Licola and Mallacoota.[37] | Club website |
Donald History & Natural History Group | 1962 | Donald | The club is a history and natural history organisation that manages the Donald Court House Museum which contains a wide-ranging collection of local and regional artefacts. In 2009 the museum also became a 'Keeping Place' for Indigenous Cultural Heritage Artefacts working alongside the Barengi Gadjin Land Council and the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation.[38] The group is also a registered Place of Deposit for the Public Record Office Victoria.[39] | Club website |
Hamilton Field Naturalists Club | 1958 | Hamilton | The club's logo is the endangered Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii), which was adopted in 1976. The club has been integral to the conservation efforts for the bandicoot, which they started in 1980.[40] The bandicoot can now only be found in the Victorian wild in the Hamilton Parkland wildlife enclosure, in which the club works alongside Parks Victoria and other government and non-government organisations to continue the conservation efforts.[41][42] | Club website |
Sale & District Field Naturalists | Sale | The club holds monthly meetings and excursions. It has previous hosted camps for the South East Australian Naturalist Association, in collaboration with the Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club.[43][44] | Web page | |
St Arnaud Field Naturalists Club | 1984 | St. Arnaud | The club holds monthly meetings and excursions. It also works closely with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and Parks Victoria to undertake conservation efforts in the region including nesting boxes and pest removal.[45][46] | Club website |
Warrnambool Field Naturalists Club | 1958 | Warrnambool | The club holds monthly meetings and excursions, as well as excursions and camp trips around the local area.[47][48][49] The club publishes the monthly Warrnambool Field Naturalists Club Newsletter and has previously published The Nature of Warrnambool authored by J.G. Douglas.[50] The club acts has continually undertaken conservation efforts on protected nature reserves in the area, including Tower Hill, Goose Lagoon, Lake Pertobe, Deen Maar at Yambuk and the Framlingham forest.[51] | Club webpage |
New South Wales
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Goulburn Field Naturalists Society | 1965 | Goulburn | The club actively participates in local conservation projects in the Goulburn area.[52] The club has published the Birds of Goulburn & District, which covers all rare and uncommon species of birds native to the area.[53] | Club website |
Albury-Wodonga Field Naturalists Club | 1965 | Albury-Wodonga | The club hosts monthly meetings and field trips in and around the Albury-Wodonga area.[54] Works closely and is hosted by the Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park.[55] | Club website |
Barrier Field Naturalists Club | 1920 | Broken Hill | The club hosts monthly meetings and field trips in and around the Broken Hill area.[56] The was co-founded by acclaimed botanist Albert Morris, recently celebrating its centenary with the Broken Hill Historical Society.[57] [58] | |
Dubbo Field Naturalist & Conservation Society | 1977 | Dubbo | The club hosts monthly meetings and field trips in the Dubbo area.[59] This has included self-guided bush walks and ecological revitalisation activities along the Macquarie-Wambul River.[60] [61] | Club website |
Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists | ||||
Orange Field Naturalist & Conservation Society |
Queensland
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Queensland Naturalists Club | ||||
Chinchilla Field Naturalists Club | ||||
South Burnett Field Naturalists Club | ||||
Tamborine Mountain Natural History Association | ||||
Stanthorpe Field Naturalist Club | ||||
Toowoomba Field Naturalists |
South Australia
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Field Naturalists Society of South Australia | ||||
Kangaroo Island Flora & Fauna Club | ||||
Riverland Field Naturalists |
Northern Territory
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club |
Western Australia
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Western Australian Naturalists Club | ||||
Busselton Naturalists Club | ||||
Goldfields Naturalists Club | ||||
Toodyay Naturalists Club |
Tasmania
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club | ||||
North East Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club | ||||
Launceston Field Naturalists Club | ||||
Burnie Field Naturalists Club | ||||
King Island Field Naturalists Club | ||||
Central North Field Naturalists |
Australian Capital Territory
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Field Naturalists Association of Canberra |
Other Australian natural science and conservation organisations
Name | Year founded | Location | Notes | External links |
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Australian Naturalists' Network | ||||
South East Australian Naturalist Association |
References
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- ^ Sheila Houghton (1987) The Australian Natural History Medallion Melbourne: Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
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- ^ Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat (2009), Wattles of Ballarat / Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat, Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat, ISBN 9780958078917
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- ^ "Whirrakee : a monthly newsletter / Bendigo Field Naturalists Club - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "Volunteer group details - Bendigo Field Naturalist Club Inc". ParkConnect. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "THE NATURALIST IN BENDIGO - A History of the Bendigo Field Naturalists Club 1945-1985" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club – Chewton". chewton.net. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany. Vol. v.36 (2017-2018). [Melbourne, Australia]: National Herbarium of Victoria. 2017.
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- ^ "Welcome to Connect". www.connectwarrnambool.com.au. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
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- ^ "Archives". Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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- ^ "Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists – Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park". Retrieved 2024-05-10.
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