What’s the biodiversity challenge? (primary)

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Topics:

Animals, including humans, Living things and their habitats, Relationships in an ecosystem, Human and physical geography

Presenter Michaela Strachan encourages young people to put what they’ve learnt into practice, to become inspired and come up with a design for a new home for nature in their own community. This clip provides natural and technological ideas and suggests how designs might be created. (Clip length 2:28 minutes)

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