The Geelong Field Naturalists Club (GFNC) is an Australian regional amateur scientific
natural history and
conservation
Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws.
Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
* Nature conservation, the protection and managem ...
society which was founded in 1961 by
Trevor Pescott. It is based in
Geelong, Victoria, with the aims of:
* preserving and protecting native flora and fauna
* promoting the conservation of natural resources and the protection of endangered species and habitats, and
* recording information and knowledge about the flora and fauna of the Geelong region
The GFNC, with its president at the time, Jack Wheeler, was instrumental in the early 1960s in establishing the
Ocean Grove Nature Reserve. The logo of the club features the
small ant-blue butterfly ''
Acrodipsas myrmecophila'' (syn ''Psuedodipsas myrmecophila''), an endangered
myrmecophilous
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species that used to be found in the reserve.
Publications
The GFNC's first serial publication,
The Wombat: Journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club', was published from 1895 to 1902. This was succeeded by
The Geelong Naturalist: The Journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club' (until 1931), then the
Geelong Naturalist: Journal of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club' (1964-1994), and then th
''Geelong Naturalist: monthly magazine of the Geelong Field Naturalists Club''(1994 to the present). The GFNC also publishes the annual ''Geelong Bird Report'' and books on the natural history of the Geelong region.
References
Further reading
* Daly, Charles; Pescott, Edward Edgar; Hill, Mrs E.E.; Hope, G.B.; & Deller, Ernest G. (1945). ''The History of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club, 1880-1932: excerpts and letters''.
External links
Geelong Field Naturalists Club
Nature conservation organisations based in Australia
Organisations based in Geelong
1961 establishments in Australia
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