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Infographic: Biodiversity – five forest species found in the Western Cape
Meet five interesting forest species found in the Western Cape.
Infographic: Water saving tips and valuing water
Learn just how precious water is and how you can save it by making small changes.
Radio clips: Interview with a Tree
Listen to these fun radio clips as kids interview a variety of trees on curriculum related topics in the 2020 and 2022 Arbor Day Interview with a Tree Competition. There are so many interesting things to learn about trees. Give it a try!
Infographic series: marine and waste – source to sea, reduce your footprint, trash-free oceans
These fun, informative infographics will help you learn how to reduce the waste that often ends up in our oceans.
Infographic: Fisheries
This beautifully illustrated infographic shows how important our fisheries are to our well-being.
Presentation: Waste - Worms on a mission
How much do we know about Earthworms? Worms are invertebrates meaning they do not have a backbone, instead, they wiggle, crawl and slide. Earthworms have no eyes or ears and breathe through their skin.
Infographic: Biodiversity – wildlife sustaining life on Earth: World Wildlife Day
World Wildlife Day is celebrated on 3 March every year to raise awareness around the world’s wild animals and plants.
Presentation: The web of life - all about interdependence
The world is made up of a variety of plants and animals, and we call the variety of life on Earth biodiversity. These make up the web of life, where each living thing depends on the other for survival.
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.
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: 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.
Activity: Quiz: classification of plants and animals – International Day of Biological Diversity (Grade 7)
Do you know which biodiversity kingdom provides 60% of the world’s medicines? Take our quiz to see how much you know about biodiversity and the Western Cape.