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Infographic: Fisheries

This beautifully illustrated infographic shows how important our fisheries are to our well-being. 

Infographic: Water saving tips and valuing water

Learn just how precious water is and how you can save it by making small changes. 

Infographic: Wetlands and people

Wetlands are important to people. Find out why with this infographic. 

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Lesson plan and presentation – Marine Month and food chains (Grade 6): one hour

What are ecosystems and food webs? Why are ecosystems and food webs important to us? In this lesson plan and presentation, you’ll learn methods to help you identify threats to ecosystems and solutions to these threats, and find out how ecosystems and the food web are created.

Lesson plan and presentation: food chains – Grade 6

Learn all about food chains and ecosystems. There are one-hour and three-hour lesson options available.

Lesson Plan and Presentation: Water - Pollution and Wetlands - Grade 6

Learn all about wetlands, what threatens them and what we can do about it! 

Poster: Marine - Rocky Shores

Learn all about what rocky shores are and who lives there. Teachers can use this poster as a source of information on different types of ecosystems. 

Presentation: Exploring life underwater – our marine biodiversity

Marine biodiversity is the variety of plant and animal life that we find in the oceans and seas. Marine biodiversity must be preserved because it creates jobs through tourism, provides raw materials for medicine and acts as a food source for both human beings and other animals. 

Presentation: Magical Forests: all about forest biodiversity

Forests play a vital role in biodiversity. They provide food and shelter for the many species found in them. In forests, some animals live in the forest canopy while others live on the ground and under shrubs and all share an interconnected food chain.

Presentation: Marine Biodiversity - The Fabulous Forms of Fish

There are some 2 600 species of fish in our seas including 270 families of fishes represented in South Africa, equivalent to 83% of all marine fish families known. Strikingly, up to 13% are endemic, ranking amongst the highest anywhere else in the world.