Australian museum

The Australian Museum is one of Australia's leading natural history and scientific institutions, with specialist expertise in biodiversity. The partnership involving Rio Tinto Australia, Rio Tinto's Western Australia businesses through the WA Future Fund, and Coal & Allied, aims to increase knowledge of biodiversity and develop new ways to apply this information to natural resource management. The partnership includes documenting native species, identifying areas of conservation significance, developing an online biodiversity mapping programme and encouraging community participation in biodiversity research.