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Conservation International editor's pick popular

http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx

6 out of 10 stars (6 votes)

seeks to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature

Added: Feb. 03, 2001 | Rate It

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, The editor's pick popular

http://www.iucnredlist.org/

latest assessment of the conservation status of species, subspecies, etc. on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation

Added: Jan. 31, 2001 | Rate It

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment editor's pick popular

http://www.millenniumassessment.org/

2 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a large collaborative effort representing the most extensive study of the state of the world’s ecosystems, analyzing the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and services important for human development

Added: Nov. 18, 2001 | Rate It

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre editor's pick popular

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

provides information, including interactive maps, for policy and action to conserve the living world; with programs concentrating on species, forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and freshwaters, and habitats affected by climate change

Added: Jan. 11, 2001 | Rate It

WWF's Living Planet Report 2006 editor's pick popular

http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/lp_2006/index.cfm

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index and the concept of the Ecological Footprint

Added: Jul. 15, 2002 | Rate It

Actionbioscience.org editor's pick

http://www.actionbioscience.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

promotes bioscience literacy by providing scientific articles on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, human genome, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers, and bioscience education

Added: Feb. 08, 2002 | Rate It

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), The editor's pick updated

http://www.gbif.org/

seeks to design, implement, co-ordinate, and promote the compilation, linking, standardisation, digitisation and global dissemination of the world’s biodiversity data

Added: Jul. 13, 2002 | Rate It

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute editor's pick

http://www.stri.org/

5 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

seeks to increase understanding of the past, present and future of tropical biodiversity and its relevance to human welfare

Added: Jan. 11, 2001 | Rate It

Wildlands Project, The editor's pick

http://www.twp.org/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1000

protects and restores the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands

Added: Jan. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Andean Botanical Information System popular

http://www.sacha.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

provides information concerning the floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants of Andean South America

Added: Feb. 08, 2001 | Rate It

Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) popular

http://daac.ornl.gov/BOREAS/boreas_home_page.html

4 out of 10 stars (10 votes)

an intensive remote-sensing and field study in the northern boreal forests of Canada, investigating exchanges of energy, water, heat, CO2, and trace gases between the boreal forest and the atmosphere

Added: Feb. 08, 2001 | Rate It

Tropical Forest Conservation and Development: A Bibliography popular

http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/trps.phtml

4 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

a searchable subject index of tropical forest resources, deforestation, conservation, indigenous peoples, management, policy and other tropical forest related topics

Added: Jan. 26, 2001 | Rate It

Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

http://leopold.wilderness.net/

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides scientific leadership to sustain wilderness, developing and communicating knowledge

Added: Jan. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Ancient Forest Exploration and Research

http://www.ancientforest.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a research and education organization dedicated to the scientific study of ancient forest ecosystems, not for profit, but for the sake of the knowledge itself; focusing on Ontario, Canada

Added: Feb. 09, 2001 | Rate It

Bibliography on the Conservation of Biological Diversity

http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/spolasky/Biobib.html

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an extensive biodiversity bibliography covering biological/ecological, economic, and policy issues

Added: Feb. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Bionet

http://www.bionet-intl.org/opencms/opencms/index1.jsp

initiative dedicated to promoting taxonomy, especially in the biodiversity rich but economically poorer countries of the world

Added: Jul. 04, 2001 | Rate It

Center for Conservation Biology

http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/

the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University promotes human well-being by developing a scientific basis for managing Earth’s life-support systems and helping arrest environmental deterioration

Added: Mar. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Conservation Biology Institute

http://www.consbio.org/

helps save the diversity of life on this planet in two primary ways: applied conservation research and education

Added: Feb. 05, 2001 | Rate It

Ecological Society of America

http://www.esa.org/

promotes ecological science by improving communication, raising public awareness, increasing resources for science and seeks the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision making

Added: Jan. 29, 2001 | Rate It

Ecology and Society

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/

a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Added: Jan. 23, 2001 | Rate It

European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)

http://www.ecnc.nl/

Seeks to conserve nature and biodiversity in Europe by bridging the gap between science and policy.

Added: Jan. 04, 2001 | Rate It

Global Forest - Pure Science

http://www.globalforestscience.org/forestbiology.html

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a research organization dedicated to conservation biology and emphasizing the potential of basic forest science for society at large

Added: Jan. 31, 2001 | Rate It

National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.nbii.gov/

provides increased access to data and information on America's biological resources

Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It

National Gap Analysis Program--USGS

http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/