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ANNOUNCING THE FIRST FOREST CONSERVATION PORTAL

Search Engine for Reviewed Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Sites

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Forest Networking a Project of Ecological Enterprises

http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Archives

http://forests.org/web/ -- Discuss Forest Conservation

6/16/99

The Gaia Forest Conservation Archives, which comprises an archives of

materials sent to you on the Worldwide Forest/Biodiversity Campaign

News and/or Papua New Guinea Rainforest Campaign News, as well as

other, additional noteworthy news items, has just had a major

revamping.

The newly named:

Gaia's Forest Conservation Archives and Portal

http://forests.org/

unveils the latest in information technology's application to forest

conservation advocacy. A Forest Conservation Portal, which indexes

reputable sources of information about forest and biodiversity

conservation worldwide, and makes them cumulatively searchable through

a simple interface, has been unveiled; the first of its kind on the

Internet. Thus far, the over 20,000 article Gaia Forest Conservation

Archives, and some dozen of the best forest conservation content from

a wide range of groups on the internet, has been made searchable at:

http://forests.org/portal/

Groups which have had their sites indexed include Conservation

International, Greenpeace International's Forest Campaign, Rainforest

Action Network, Rainforest Alliance, Rainforest Information Centre,

Taiga Rescue Network, World Conservation Monitoring Centre's Forest

Programme, World Rainforest Movement, World Resource Institute-Forest

Frontiers Initiative, World Wide Fund for Nature-Forests for Life

Campaign. This unified search interface will continue to grow as

many dozens of additional sites will be added in the coming weeks.

One of the greatest benefits is that if you search on "brazil atlantic

forest" you get several hundred links to various sources of quality

information, not a quarter of a million or something unmanageable like

on the entire Internet's search engines. Give it a try and use it as

a resource in your forest conservation endeavors.

Sincerely,

Glen Barry

Director

Ecological Enterprises