Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Visitors can view maps that show shrinking biodiversity and learn about newly investigated parts of the planet. Background information is provided to explain the declining number of species within each general group of organisms.
Some groups have a representative organism highlighted.
One such organism is the El Segundo Blue Butterfly, whose Los Angeles population has been saved because the habitat encroaching neighborhoods have been cleared. Another section on the site contains scientists' comments as they discover the unexplored spaces of the cobbled beds in the New England intertidal zone. Visitors have the opportunity to read and leave viewpoints about biodiversity issues in a forum section. Viewing the interactive maps, with zooming, political borders, and endemic species maps, requires Macromedia Flash version 3.0 or higher. Links to download sites provided.