The Home Page for the Federal Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH) – provides access to a wealth of information on environment and heritage, Federal legislation and policy, including a detailed section on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

This is the home page for the NSW Maritime Heritage Unit, associated with the NSW Heritage Office. The maritime unit of the heritage office specifically deals with maritime archaeological sites, including shipwrecks, as well as maritime related buildings, such as harbours, wharves, jetties and lighthouses. The website includes information on the different types of maritime heritage sites as well as a searchable database listing shipwrecks that have occurred throughout NSW.

The World Resources Institute provides a worldwide environment information portal including maps, statistics and country profiles.

Indigenous land management links, case studies, guidelines and coordination centres throughout Australia.

http://www.dvc.vic.gov.au/

This is the Victorian Government’s Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (AAV) web site. It provides advice and information on all aspects of Aboriginal affairs in Victoria.

The Home Page for the Heritage Council of Victoria. It provides extensive information about Heritage Council committees, legislation, permits, heritage places of interest and much more.

Parish Map Preservation Project

Trust for Nature Website provides information on Conservation Covenants and details current projects.

The Victorian Frog Group web site has links to information pages about frogs throughout Australia. It is useful as a field guide as it provides detailed descriptions, photographs and recordings of calls that can be listened to.

World species list of animals, plants and microbes. Searchable database by category.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna. Index to resources, official documents and programs.

As the key scientific institution within Victoria focusing on the documentation of plant biodiversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens is an invaluable resource, underpinning plant science research and conservation throughout Victoria and significantly contributing to the management of the State’s natural resources.

Control of weeds

This note describes the legislative classification of weeds in Victoria, outlines the responsibilities of land owners for control of weeds and the legal restrictions on trade and dispersal of noxious weeds, and provides a list of noxious weeds with their current classifications.

Online Eucalypt identification resource. Includes as much information as possible, learn about distribution and ecology, evolution and classification.

The University of California Berkeley Library provides an Online checklist of worldwide vegetation and plant distribution maps.

Displays graphs of temperature and wind conditions for Port Phillip Bay and Victorian coastal locations that are updated every five minutes. Lots of other information and links for coastal weather.

Live webcams of snow conditions, along with current weather info for all Australian ski resorts. The cams operate (at least most of them) all year, so you can check out the weather before you go bushwalking, too.

With this site you can easily find the distance between two towns and get detailed driving directions, including a route map.

See the time all over the world, calculate time differences, work out when to call overseas, etc

Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.

Some of the more unusual sites that we have come across (and sometimes even find a use for!) in the course of our work.