1. A good overview of the world's biomes can be found at www.worldbiomes.com:  and an alternative can be found at  www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

2.Wild Places from WWF has a particularly neat globe graphic as a menu, and good quality information.

3.Get out there and experience it for real. Discover the Living Planet is a specialist company in educational tours to wild places.  www.living-planet.co.uk including Iceland [tundra], Jordan [desert]  Belize and Sarawak [rainforests]

4.One world journeys www.oneworldjourneys.com where you can join a virtual expedition to a wild place

5. Earthtrends from the World Resources Institute is simply the best site for up to date data www.wri.org

6.Conservation International Conservation projects throughout the world. A great variety of information about threats to biodiversity. http://www.conservation.org/

7.Look into the environments of the world www.earthcam.com/ This is a map index giving access to many of the Web Cameras around the world. There is excellent coverage in US, Japan and Europe, although the rest of the world is covered too.

8. Canada's Aquatic Environments www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/  "This accessible and attractive Web site offers information on topics including plants, animals, habitats, human interactions, research institutes and researchers - all in a Canadian aquatic context. Information on research institutes and individuals can be accessed from a clickable map of Canada; there is also an alphabetical list of researchers. Some of the topics covered have supporting bibliographic references and links to related sites."

9. Canadian Biodiversity Web Site www.canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/   The Redpath Museum of McGill University invites you to explore the biodiversity of Canada. It looks at the meaning of biodiversity, biodiversity theory, increases and decreases, plus explanations of the many aspects and terms relating to this subject. Also discussed are patterns of biodiversity over time and space. Further sections focus on Canada; the physical environment and its many terrestrial and aquatic ecozones. There is an extensive section on the animals, plants and fungi of Canada with species records, photos and other images. Other topics featured include conservation issues and legislation. Links to other Web sites and references for further reading are also made available."

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