Ugly animals need love too
Resources for the Catalyst article Ugly animals need love too
Ugly Cures *suitable for home teaching*
This video highlights examples of chemicals found in nature which are being trialled in different countries. These include: using spider venom to treat cancer, a poison produced by the cone snail used in pain relief medicine and how an endangered coral provides the key to a revolutionary sunscreen pill.
The ugly animal challenge sheet contains ideas for further research into ugly animals.
How Wolves Change Rivers
What can happen if you reintroduce a species into a habitat? When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred.
Inside STEM Careers: cloning endangered plants
The Millennium Seed Bank aims to conserve plant species by the long term storage of their seeds. Johnathon Kendon, conservation biotechnologist at Kew, contributes to the conservation of orchids, ferns and other plants threatened with extinction by such things as deforestation, climate change, collectors or volcanic eruptions. Students can consider the effect of human activity on the environment and find out about career opportunities available in ecology and plant biology with the activities in this resource.
