Kimberly Redick of Drexel University writes: > I have a rather unusual request. I am a graduate student conducting an > independent study on zoos as vehicles for communicating environmental > ideas. Since zoos can be classified as living museums, depending on > the context, I thought someone on this list may be able to offer some > input. And botanic gardens are vegetative zoos and thus green museums... Try pointing your favourite network information client at our servers on http://155.187.10.12/ (or gopher://155.187.10.12/1). The Gardens has an environmental education centre and an education program that caters for hundreds of classes of mostly primary school students each year. The emphasis is providing the Gardens as a resource that teachers can use education and here is much teaching of teachers, although there is also direct instruction of students by education staff and rangers. The 'teaching the teachers' self-reliance approach vastly increases the number of groups that the Gardens can handle with limited staff and has a wider effect of passing on our environmental ideas to future cohorts of students in the school classroom, even if they do not visit the Gardens. The education centre produces a wide range of cheaply produced but quality-content printed worksheets for students and resource kits for teachers, and the intention is to add these to the network. Contact the Gardens education officer, Julie Foster ([log in to unmask]) for more information. Are there any zoos out there actively putting their collections and educational information on the Net through WWW or gopher? I would like to to be able to point to them... jim ___________________________________________________________________________ Jim Croft [Herbarium CBG] internet: [log in to unmask] Australian National Botanic Gardens voice: +61-6-2509 490 GPO Box 1777, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA fax: +61-6-2509 599 URL=http://155.187.10.12:80/people/croft.jim.html ______Biodiversity Directorate, Australian Nature Conservation Agency______