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Conservation International editor's pick popular
http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx
(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
(1 vote)
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 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
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute editor's pick popular
(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
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre editor's pick popular
(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
ActionBioscience.org editor's pick
http://www.actionbioscience.org/
(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
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
Andean Botanical Information System popular
(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
(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 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/
(1 vote)
provides scientific leadership to sustain wilderness, developing and communicating knowledge
Added: Jan. 23, 2001 | Rate It
Ancient Forest Exploration and Research
(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
(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
(1 vote)
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
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)
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
(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 updated
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=236&mode=2&cached=true
provides increased access to data and information on America's biological resources
Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It
National Gap Analysis Program--USGS
(1 vote)
seeks to provide regional assessments of the conservation status of native vertebrate species and natural land cover types in the U.S. and to facilitate the application of this information to land management activities
Added: Jan. 17, 2001 | Rate It
Resources for the Future
http://www.rff.org/Pages/default.aspx
conducts independent research -- rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences -- on environmental and natural resource issues
Added: Jan. 15, 2001 | Rate It
Xerces Society, The
focuses on public education about invertebrates and conservation projects that demonstrate their critical roles in endangered ecosystems around the globe
Added: Jan. 27, 2001 | Rate It
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
working to maintain and restore the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region, to ensure this wilderness continues to function and support all its natural and human communities, by establishing a regionial protected area network
Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It
