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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-02-06 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-05-19 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007605b.htm person Perkins Ernest Edward OAM AACR2 Naturalist Ern Perkins is a naturalist who immersed himself in studies of the flora and fauna of his local area. With his wife Lesley, he is dedicated to the investigation, exploration, recording, documenting and advocacy of the natural environment. Surveys in which he has taken a key role range from birds such as the Swift Parrot and the Regent Honeyeater, to the conservation value of roadside verges, and data collection for paired quadrats used to monitor effects of controlled burns. For the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club, Perkins prepared most of the leaflets it issued on the natural history of the district. He was also heavily involved in the publication of Indigenous plants of Greater Bendigo (2004) published by the City of Greater Bendigo and Bendigo Native Plant group. Advisory and management committees in which he has participated include the Walk and Trails Advisory Board and the Heritage Advisory Board, both of the Mt Alexander Shire. Perkins is an active member of naturalists clubs in Bendigo, Castlemaine and Benalla, and the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. Perkins has received a number of awards for his work, including Honorary Life membership of the Australian Plant Society Victoria in 2000 and the Australian Natural History Medallion in 2003. 1965 Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 2000 Award - Honorary Life Member, Australian Plants Society Victoria 2000 2000 Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - for services to conservation and the environment and the community of Castlemaine 2006 2006 Award - Banksia Environmental Award entitled 'Back from the Brink: Saving Victoria's Threatened Orchids' (shared with Lesley Perkins) 2008 2008 Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria Australian Plants Society Victoria (1957 - )

Honorary Life Member 2000 -

 Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1940 - )

Awarded the Medallion 2008

 Murphy, Patricia Joan (Pat) (1930 - 2006) 'Perkins, Ernest Edward', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Perkins, Ernest Edward Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Australian Natural History Medallion 2008: Ernest Edward Perkins Endersby, Ian Australian Natural History Medallion 2008: Ernest Edward Perkins 2009 The Victorian naturalist 126 2 52-53 Book: Indigenous plants of Bendigo: a gardeners' guide to growing and protecting local plants City of Greater Bendigo Indigenous plants of Bendigo: a gardeners' guide to growing and protecting local plants Bendigo, Vic. City of Greater Bendigo 2004