Kids Investigating Sea Solutions (KISS)

If you want to discover some of the amazing things about the sea, what makes it wonderful, how you can contribute to keeping it safe for the plants, animals and organisms that live there, you may want to watch these pages for news, art and information.

http://www.ausmepa.org.au/kiss/

Here are some of the KISS craft ideas that teachers loved at the teachers resource exhibition in Brisbane.

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BOOK: Global warming and climate change: what Australia knew and buried - then framed a new reality for the public

Here is a book that may be of special interest to those who have followed the climate change and green house story over the last 25yrs.  For high school teachers it represents a wealth of information for framing a debate.

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Guide to the Sea Snakes of the Kimberley Coast of Western Australia

Technical Report: Guide to the Sea Snakes of the Kimberley Coast of Western Australia

Ruchira Somaweera · Kate Sanders

ABSTRACT: Australia’s Kimberley coast has the world’s highest recorded diversity of sea snakes supporting more than one third of all known species, with at least three species found only in this region. Sea snakes occupy varied habitats in the Kimberley, ranging from deeper offshore waters to shallow coral reefs and mangroves. Some Kimberley species have extremely small distributions and are considered critically endangered or endangered. For example, the Short-nosed Sea Snake (Aipysurus apraefrontalis) and Leaf-scaled Sea Snake (Aipysurus foliosquama) have disappeared from offshore Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs and are now known only from scattered records along the northwest coast.

This guide illustrates all know species and also summarises information on their biology and conservation. Some of these species even occur in Perth waters, mostly as vagrants.

Printed copies are available through the Department of Parks and Wildlife
http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/..

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