The site is divided into sections on business and trade, plants, animals, fisheries, environment, biosecurity and research. The Environment section covers issues such as drought and the Research tab leads to case studies on issues such as food technology. The home page features an ‘alerts’ link about current biosecurity threats, and ‘From the Minister’ highlights other current issues.

Links to material regarding many issues confronting the Australian environment. At CSIRO we shape the future. We do this by using science to solve real issues. Our research makes a difference to industry, people, and the planet. We ask, we seek, we solve.

Home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature.

Houses the Maritime Archaeology section of the Queensland Museum and has links to the field excavation site of the Royal Navy warship, ‘Pandora’, which was sent to the South Pacific to capture the men who had ‘pirated’ the Bounty. Our focus is on researching and interpreting the cultural and natural heritage of tropical Queensland.

Animal specimens utilised by educational institutions, marketing companies, video and film production houses, museums, and DEC (Department of Environment and Conservation). Guildford, Greater Perth, Natural History, Stuffed animal mounts

Database of scientific information on and photographs of known species. Global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

Play games, watch videos, learn about animals, and places, and get fun facts on the National Geographic Kids website. National Geographic Kids publishes ten issues annually. It has an advisory board of 500 subscribers and solicits reader feedback after each issue.

Wildlife films and photos from some of the world’s best filmmakers and photographers. ARKive is leading the ‘virtual’ conservation effort – gathering together films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species, prioritising those most at risk of extinction, and building them into comprehensive multimedia digital profiles. ARKive is a unique record of the world’s increasingly threatened biodiversity.

A teaching museum with displays primarily designed to support the teaching of the Zoology department’s own students. The displays stress form, anatomy, taxonomy and evolutionary relationships within all of the major Zoological groups and include several fine sequences of associated fossils. Armidale, Northern Tablelands, Natural history, Teaching museum open to the public