International Year of Biodiversity 2010: International Year of Biodiversity The United Nations has declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity.Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is essential to sustaining the living networks and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on. Monkey Me - the fun biodiversity gameGame developed by www.biodiversity2010.org.au In response to International Year of Biodiversity the Western Australian Museum has created a series of programs to celebrate WA's unique biodiversity, reflect on the achievements of our staff to safeguard biodiversity, and focus on the urgency of our challenge for the future. Join us, together with Professor Lyn Beazley, Chief Scientist and Patron of the WA Museum's International Year of Biodiversity program and Dr Harry Butler, Fellow of the Western Australian Museum, to put a spotlight on biodiversity.To see what's going on around Australia to mark the International Year of Biodiversity, the nation-wide hub for Biodiversity events can be found at www.biodiversity2010.org.au. The Harry Butler lecture series - In the Wild West A program of lectures by WA Museum scientists and associatesForeword by W.H. (Harry) Butler, WA Museum Fellow. "I have been working with Western Australian wildlife since 1965 and associated with the Western Australian Museum for that time. My very first specimen was collected at 15 and it is still in the Western Australian Museum collection. I am honoured to be involved in the Museum's lecture series as part of the International Year of Biodiversity and proud to lend my name to the series. Over the coming months the Harry Butler Lecture Series will provide Western Australians with a golden opportunity to hear some of the State's most eminent scientists talk about their work and their hopes for the future of biodiversity in this State and the nation."