Section of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Queensland providing a definition of biodiversity and further information on the topic. Links to related subjects like assessment and mapping techniques, Queensland herbarium, conservation and ecosystems.
Website of the Queensland Museum (QM) offering an explanation on biodiversity. The site also provides information on Queensland’s vanishing wildlife, Threats to wildlife, What can I do? And Contributors.
Section of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources website, offering an explanation on the term biodiversity, listing the threats to biodiversity in Australia, and providing links to Government actions to conserve biodiversity. Navigational links to related themes.
Learning Centre of the Coffs Harbour City Council website, explaining the term biodiversity, the unique biodiversity of Australia, and what can be done to conserve it, but also giving further information on Environmental issues like Grow Your own Food, Global Warming & Greenhouse Effect, What is Sustainability, Waste Management, Composting, Composting with Worms.
The website of the Australian Museum features a short explanation on biodiversity and provides subcategories such as Levels of biodiversity, Biodiversity in Australia and Conserving biodiversity. Further navigational links about What’s happening to our biodiversity, How can you help, Biodiversity and The Australian Museum, Fact sheets and Video. http://www.austmus.gov.au/biodiversity/what/index.htm
The Biodiversity Project is an initiative of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (CGBD), based in Wisconsin, USA. The Biodiversity Project's mission is to advocate for biodiversity by designing and implementing innovative communication strategies that build and motivate a broad constituency to protect biodiversity. The website provides information under four sections: Biodiversity is important because…, Biodiversity Threats…, How do Scientists Define Biodiversity? And a Bibliography.
The California Biodiversity Council (CBC) was formed in 1991 to improve coordination and cooperation between the various resource management and environmental protection organizations at federal, state, and local levels. The website provides different definitions on biodiversity, but also features navigational links to more information about the organisation.
Report by the Crawford Fund calls for research into growing food in northern Australia, to not only provide food supplies during climate change, but also pass on valuable knowledge to
(ABC News, 15/11/08)
The Australian Federal Government plans to study non-lethal methods of whale research, which will not only discover how the world’s whales are coping with climate change and other problems, but only prove to Japan that whales can be studied without killing them.
(ABC News, 17/11/08)