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Australian forests  
URL:http://www.forestlearning.edu.au/
Category:Forests  Forests  Natural & Social Systems 

The Australian Forests website is a national portal for forestry education in Australia, bringing together resources and information from all States and Territories.

Biodiversity 911  
URL:http://www.biodiversity911.org/forests/forests_main.html
Category:Forests 

In the forests section of the American World Wildlife Funds? Biodiversity 911 site middle and upper primary students can explore the forests layers and their inhabitants in a Sumatran rainforest. There are short case studies profiling ways people are working to protect forests as well as suggestions for taking action to protect forests.

Deforest Action  
URL:www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/deforestaction/
Category:Forests 

This website raises awareness about deforestation and asks students to consider how their choices and actions can make a different for forest conservation.

Eco Forest  
URL:http://www.publish.csiro.au/onborrowedtime/ecoforest/eco_forest.swf
Category:Forests 

In this interactive game by CSIRO upper primary and lower secondary students explore the consequences of decisions about different types of logging on the local wildlife and economy of an area

Fire Boss - Interactive Fire fighting Game  
URL:http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenfoe.nsf/FID/-http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenfoe.nsf/LinkView/9ECF7D4BB7ED797FCA256DA9000B864C75D9EB3A223105444A256DEA00140995
Category:Forests  Forests  Resource Use & Management 

In this game students take on the role of a ?Fire Boss? and coordinate efforts to control a forest fire in Green Acres State Forest.

Global Education Issues: Forests  
URL:http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/pid/4286
Category:Forests  Global Education 

Page about forests as a global issue from the Global Education Website, initiated and funded by AusAID to support its Global Education Program. Includes: Facts; Background; Australia's responses; the global agenda, teaching activities, links to other resources and a case study: Sustainable living from logged forests in Papua New Guinea.