TO RAISE awareness about their threatened environment, Aussie kids may be allocated a native species at birth. The plan is to get children to identify with their particular marsupial, worm or gum tree in the same way people identify with their horoscope sign.
The idea was hatched by Sarah Ryan, an agricultural scientist at the CSIRO, Australia’s national research organisation. Ryan envisages teachers drawing on their students’ “biodiversity identities” to create a classroom ecosystem. She is now in talks with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for South Australia about the feasibility of putting the scheme into…
