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Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services. Humans are part of this biodiversity too and have the power to protect or destroy it. Currently, our activities are destroying biodiversity at alarming rates. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely on. But we can prevent them. Now is the time to act

RSPB Youth pages - www.rspb.org.uk/youth
RSPB Resources targetted at school age children.
Online games and information about Wildlife Explorers and RSPB Phoenix.

2010 International Year of Biodiversity - www.biodiversityislife.net
Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services. Information about biodiversity and events being planned across the UK this year.

Planet Earth Online - planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
The Planet Earth Online website, from the Natural Environment Research Council, contains fascinating reports about the earth and its wildlife. Read about why Robins don't get fat, and how scientists have confirmed that Arctic terns make the longest migration of any animal on the planet.

Nature Detectives - www.naturedetectives.org.uk
A great source of ideas and resources.

The Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES) - www.amentsoc.org
Loads of information and help with identification of insects.

Breathing Places - www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces
Loads of resources to download.

Fungi 4 Schools - www.fungi4schools.org
British Mycological Society maintains this excellent source of information about fungi.
Targetted at school age children there is lots of Leader/Teacher information.

rECOrd Free Educational Resources - www.record-lrc.co.uk
rECOrd is the Local Biological Records Centre serving Cheshire, Halton, Warrington and Wirral. Loads of free educational resources.

Charles Darwin - Open University - www.open.ac.uk/darwin
Loads of information about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution.
"You can read about the latest research on Darwin’s finches and how new species evolve, uncover the flaws in ‘intelligent design’, find out what evolution has to say about psychology, the development of the human mind and morality, and how we are still evolving."

Mammal Society - www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal
Loads of fact sheets about British Mammals.

Bird Track - www.bto.org
BirdTrack is the online bird recording scheme developed by the BTO, RSPB and BirdWatch Ireland. Add your own observations and see where birds are moving to/from.

The Children's University of Manchester - www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk
"Online learning for Key Stage 2, from The University of Manchester."

Wildlife identification

Guide to UK Birds - www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife

British Garden Birds - www.garden-birds.co.uk

British Wild Flowers - www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk

Insects - www.amentsoc.org