The Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (ARI) is the biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

 research organisation for the Department of Sustainability and Environment of the government of Victoria, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It provides advice on ecologically sustainable land and water management issues and with regard to threatened native flora and fauna. It is named after Sir Arthur Rylah

Arthur Rylah

Sir Arthur Gordon Rylah KBE CMG was an Australian politician and lawyer.-Background:Rylah was born in Kew, Melbourne. He was educated at Trinity Grammar and the University of Melbourne, graduating with a law degree from this university in 1932...

, a long-serving Victorian politician

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

and deputy state premier in the 1950s and 1960s.

External links

• ARI