This educational resource on biodiversity takes the reader on a journey across the natural world! This resource can be used to learn about biodiversity, and how to take action to protect it.
"Bio" means life and "diversity" means variety, so biodiversity is the incredible variety of living things in nature and how they interact with each other. Biodiversity is very complex and is often explained as the variety and variability of genes, species and ecosystems. But today, biodiversity loss is occurring at an unprecedented rate.
Can you imagine not using any water for a day? It's almost impossible, and certainly not comfortable! There's so much water in our everyday lives, it's very easy to just take it for granted. This booklet allows young people to explore, play and discover everything water has to offer and ways to better conserve it.
The ocean covers 70 percent of the earth's surface, and is essential for life on our planet - even those who live nowhere near the sea! It provides us with food and other materials that we need, regulates our climate and provides half of the oxygen we breathe. But human activity au causing significant damage to life in the ocean.