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Environmental Studies Useful Websites
| Aboriginal Heritage in Lane Cove, Manly, North Sydney, Warringah | There are over 1000 sites of Aboriginal culture and heritage in the areas of Sydney known as North Sydney, Lane Cove, Willoughby, Manly, Warringah, Ku-ring-gai and Pittwater. The Guringai people, who once occupied this area, left important evidence of their past and way of life before colonisation. |
| Amphibian Research Centre | Dedicated to the research and conservation of Australian frogs. |
| Archaeology and rock art in the Dampier Archipelago - Dampier Rock Art | Dampier Archipelago contains the largest concentration of rock art in the world, estimated at perhaps a million Petroglyphs. The art is extraordinary in its range and diversity. Associated with the art is a rich archaeological record, including camp sites, quarries, shell middens and stone features. |
| Australia ICOMOS | ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) is primarily concerned with the philosophy, terminology, methodology and techniques of conservation. |
| Australian Heritage | Contains links to heritage information and resources, and links to other heritage websites. |
| Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research | Botany and horticultural information; Rare & threatened plants; Aboriginal uses of native plants; book lists and access to a number of ANBG databases including - Australian plant names index; Herbarium specimen information. |
| Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information | CRCSI is an unincorporated joint venture comprising over 60 organisations from the corporate, government and university sectors from around Australia. |
| Geoscience Australia | Contains many useful maps including mines atlas, regional online mapping and mineral maps of Australia. |
| Indigenous Weather Knowledge | Indigenous Australians have long held their own seasonal calendars based on the local sequence of natural events. |
| NSW BioNet | The website for the Atlas of NSW Wildlife - a whole-of-government system for flora and fauna sightings information. |
| OzCoasts: Information about Australia's estuaries and coasts | OzCoasts is a publicly accessible online database with a web-based interface that provides comprehensive information about Australia's coasts (including its estuaries and coastal waterways) to natural resource managers, marine scientists, planners, policy makers and the general public. |
| Sustainable Tourism CRC | Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) was established under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres program in 1997, and has grown to be the largest dedicated tourism research organisation in the world. |
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