Biodiversity: nature's variety, our heritage, our future
A guide to using and protecting Australia's biodiversity
Environment Australia, 1998 (Revised 2001)
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- Biodiversity: nature's variety, our heritage, our future - full document (PDF - 8,913 KB)
- Contents (PDF - 110 KB)
- Australia's report card on biodiversity (PDF - 134 KB)
- Biodiversity – we live in it (PDF - 1,005 KB)
- Biodiversity at the dinner table (PDF - 1,107 KB)
- Biodiversity keeps us healthy (PDF - 978 KB)
- Biodiversity in the backyard and beyond (PDF - 1,320 KB)
- Biodiversity at a glance (PDF - 209 KB)
- Protecting biodiversity 24 hours a day (PDF - 273 KB)
- Biodiversity on holiday (PDF - 968 KB)
- Biodiversity on the farm (PDF - 1,022 KB)
- Biodiversity afloat (PDF - 877 KB)
- Warning signs of change (PDF - 944 KB)
- World record breakers (PDF - 261 KB)
- Find out more! (PDF - 41 KB)
- Top 10 reasons to care about biodiversity (PDF - 142 KB)
About the guide
Biodiversity is the web of life – the thin skin of living things, including us, which inhabits the surface of planet Earth. Biodiversity includes humans, animals, plants, fungi and microbes – from dugongs to daisies, toadstools to termites. This variety of life has evolved over hundreds of millions of years. We don’t know how many species live on Earth – scientists have described about 1.8 million. But that’s just a drop in the ocean compared to the estimated 10 to 100 million which probably exist.
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