Cadbury Schweppes
Yowies

A team, led by the writer Bryce Courtenay created the “Yowie” cartoon characters. These characters were produced for a confectionery product manufactured by Cadbury Schweppes in Australia.

The Yowie characters live in, and look after six different Australian environments. The program is designed to broaden children’s knowledge of the natural world and issues of environmental concern. As part of the marketing campaign for the Yowies, Cadbury created an educational kit promoting and encouraging environmental awareness.

Magian created this CD-ROM as the principal component of the resource kit. The CD-ROM, as part of the Teacher's kit, was distributed to schools free of charge.

The CD-ROM program incorporates several games including one where animals can be found in the six different environments.

This includes a process of discovery of various facts about the animals, the habitats in which they live and how they hit into the Food Web. The CD-ROM also has information about the threats to each of the habitats.

The CD-ROM won an Australian ATOM multimedia award in 1997.