Annotated web links

Desert and Desertification links

Combating desertification in Australia
www.deh.gov.au/land/publications/actions/

Report published April 2002

Australia’s Silent Flood
www.abc.net.au/learn/silentflood/

Summary of 4 ABC programs on salinity. 2004

Australia’s Arid lands
www.cazr.csiro.au/aridlands.htm

Home page of the Centre for Arid Zone Research. Updated Nov 2005

Deserts and desertification
www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page2006.html

Up-to-date background site from AusAid. Jan 06

Learning to combat desertification
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001258/125816e.pdf

Comprehensive 261 page guide from the United Nations Convention to Combat desertification. Full of excellent classroom activities. Undated but is post 2000 by dates in text.

Spreading deserts
www.fao.org/desertification/search/doc_dett.asp?id_doc=501

Simply a 1990 map of Africa.