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Human Impacts on Catchments
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Key Message 2 - We all Live and Interact in Catchments
Human Impacts on Catchments
Resources
Topic of Study - Threatened Species
 
  • What factors have lead to the extinction and near extinction of plants and animals in Australia?
  • Why is the issue of species under threat a local, national and international problem?
  • Why should students come to value all life in catchments?
 
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- Threatened species in South Australia.
- Brief description of projects they are involved
  in, with contact details.
Threatened Species Network SA
http://www.ccsa.asn.au/tsnsa.htm
- Threatened species fact sheets available for
  download.
- Plus plenty more.
Threatened Species Network World Wildlife Fund for Nature
http://www.wwf.org.au/default.asp?p=../tsn/index.htm
- South Australian site with links, ideas and
  resources concerning threatened species in
  this State.
- Threatened species.
- Brief summary of issues.
- Site with lots of links to information
  concerning endangered species.
- About threatened species.
- The plight of our species.
- The extinction of biodiversity with lists of
  endangered species and extinct ones.
- Discusses reasons for extinctions and
  threatened species.

More Comprehensive

- Threatened species.
- Click on the education button and select the
  threatened species link.

VIC Government
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/domino/cm_da/
nrenpa.nsf/frameset/
NRE Plants and Animals?OpenDocument

- Background to threats to biodiversity around
  the world.

Species Survival Commission
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/pubs/policy/
invasivesEng.htm#BACKGROUND

- Threatened species and ecological
  communities.
- Links to a range of information resources
  managed by the Federal Government.

Environment Australia
http://www.ea.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/

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