Students

Students in a field of canola

Part of our lives each day our natural resources and primary industries are amazing. Don't believe it? Check out these facts…

There are more than 600 species of trees in NSW including eucalypts, acacias and casuarinas.
Barramundi, which are farmed in NSW, start life as males and end as females. They also live in both freshwater and saltwater.
A standard house frame uses around four plantation grown pine trees.
90% of electricity generated in NSW comes from coal. NSW is the largest consumer of energy in Australia.
The translation of the scientific name for Butterfish, Scatophagus, is Scat = poo, phagus = eater.
With around 35 million, NSW has the highest number of sheep of any state, that’s more than 5 sheep for every man, woman and child in NSW.
Healthy koalas average 150 scats (poos) a day which smell like eucalyptus oil.
Want to know more? Search for information on topics related to primary industries; find photos or definitions from this page.

The Dubbo Speech Spectacular

Thirteen NSW students were invited to compete for cash prizes at the Dubbo Speech Spectacular in March 2010. Find out who won the competition, and listen to the fabulous two-minute talks which got those thirteen students to the final here ...

Fish-n-kids web pages

See Fish-n-kids for all that is fun about fish and fishing.

Ask a geologist

Have you got a general geological question or a rock sample and you don't know what it is? Well this page gives you the opportunity to ask a Geologist.

Image library

See the slideshow or photostream (Flickr).

Reading list

See the reading list so you can delve deeper into issues like sustainability, climate change and food security.

Glossaries

Agriculture (www.agwine.adelaide.edu.au)
Climate (www.bom.gov.au)
Climate change
Energy (http://www.originenergy.com.au/605/Glossary#S)
Fisheries (www.daff.gov.au)
Forests (www.dpi.nsw.gov.au)
Geoscience (www.ga.gov.au)