Pictures
There are more photographs and there is a more extensive coverage of Victorian plant and animal species in these packages than in any other publication. For many of the plant species there are no other published photographs.

The Flora and Fauna databases have colour photographs of about 95% of animal (mammal, bird, reptile and frog) species and 80% of the (vascular) plants.

There are usually several photographs for a species showing, for animals, males, females, juveniles and different colour forms or, for plants, flowers, fruit, leaves, bark and so on.

In total there are over 18,000 photographs of about 4600 species.

Descriptions
For each species a simple and concise description has been prepared. As much as possible non-technical language has been used in these descriptions but when this is not practical an on-line glossary is included which can be accessed by simply highlighting the word then clicking the right mouse-button.

For each plant species the descriptions contain information on the general appearance, flowers (or spores if a fern), fruit, leaves and (often) its preferred environment. Other pieces of information include flowering time, place of origin (if the species is not native), Koorie use (if any) and a variety of other characteristics.

For each animal species the descriptions contain information on general appearance, colours, differences (if any) between males, females and juveniles, size (and weight for mammals), breeding data and habitat.

Maps
The basic maps are simple outlines of Victoria, with the distribution of the selected species superimposed as a series grids with dimensions of 10 minutes longitude and 10 minutes latitude (about 15 x 18 km). 

The Combination
All three are combined to provide the user with a single page layout which summarises the species appearance, conservation status, biogeography and ecology.