In these meetings, the club invites a guest speaker to present on a topic related to conservation and native flora and fauna.
The club also holds excursions several times a month, each with a specific interest focus, including day and night walks, conservation activities and talks from visiting experts in the area or field.
[4] In recent years the project has been undertaken in collaboration with Parks Victoria and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
[14] The BFNC, in collaboration with the Ararat Field Naturalist Club, organised and partially funded the erection of a stone seat memorial in 1950, to Grampians pioneer and explorer Daniel Sullivan (1836 to 1895), in recognition of his work identifying wildflowers in the region.
The specimen was initially identified by Cincinnati University as a previously un-discovered species Silurian eurypterid, which they named Melbourneopterus, after the nearby state capital.
Over the next twenty years the club sent three more proposals to government bodies, including submissions to Premier Henry Bolte and Minister for Lands Bill Borthwick.
A final successful submission in 1974 involved club members undertaking extensive research into the flora and fauna of the area through observations, and identifying species critical to the ongoing biodiversity of the region.
[25] The publication is named for the Whirrakee wattle, a species of Acacia endemic to the Bendigo Whipstick, an area the BFNC has made great efforts to conserve.