Ecosystem services are things nature provides for humans that help us survive and stay healthy. For example, plants produce oxygen that helps us breathe. Plants also provide food and shelter for us. Bats provide ecosystem services to people too. Bats help pollinate plants that provide us with…
Learn some ways that roads affect forest biodiversity and discuss this topic with classmates, family, or friends.
1. True or False? A tapir looks like nature put a shortened elephant trunk on a pig, but tapirs are really relatives of horses and rhinos.
Shrews are some of the smallest mammals on Earth. None of them are bigger than a mouse, and although they resemble mice, they are not rodents. Shrews are insectivores. They spend their lives hunting down insects in underbrush or burrowing for them through the soil. Shrews stay…
This is Buru Island, a small island in Indonesia: The island of Buru in Indonesia. Image by Urmas/Wikimedia Commons. Buru Island is home to many types of animals. One of these, the hairy babirusa, is known to locals, who sometimes spot it in the forest.…
Learn about the palm oil industry and why it is controversial.
Part 2: Meet the local people of Sulawesi and learn about some of the local conservation issues Meet the local people: There are several ethnic groups in Sulawesi, each of which speaks its own language. One of the most distinct groups in Sulawesi is the…
Learn about the biodiversity of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
