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FOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY

Getting Half of the Forest Conservation Story?

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Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc.

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

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

 

February 16, 2002

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

As a subscriber to the Forest Conservation News Today email list, you

regularly receive reviewed forest conservation news with commentary by

Forests.org.  Our recent surveying of subscribers indicated that many

of you are not aware of, and/or and are not using, Forests.org’s

significant web site content which is meant to complement and provide

additional depth to your email postings.  We want to make sure you are

aware of the other half of Forests.org’s Internet based conservation

advocacy efforts.

 

During recent months we have greatly expanded our web content and

improved its underlying technology.  In particular the Forest

Conservation Portal at http://forests.org/ and the Climate Ark –

Climate Change Portal at http://www.climateark.org/ have been

substantially reorganized. 

 

And we continue to build new resources.  Our Papua New Guinea

Rainforest Conservation Portal at http://www.pngweb.com/ provides in-

depth coverage as well as tracking of current news and information for

this country’s very important rainforests.

 

And as a colleague, I want to make you aware of a major new project in

the works – the Eco-Portal is being revamped as THE source of

environmental sustainability information.  You can take a sneak peek

at this work in progress at

http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/ .  This site is not yet

formally launched, but you will see this it promises to be the most

substantive environmental portal on the Internet.

 

I very much hope that you are availing yourself of these resources. 

 

Though we continue to struggle financially, and I have had to take a

full time job to subsidize these efforts (as a Botanical Information

Systems Specialist in the Department of Botany at the University of

Wisconsin), you have our commitment that these resources will continue

to grow and innovate until these and all our movement’s efforts assist

in ushering in the era of environmental conservation, sustainability

and restoration. 

 

Our recent fund-raising drive was somewhat successful.  But we still

require a number of small software inputs and other computer equipment

that we cannot currently afford.  If you have not yet given a yearly

donation, please do so at http://forests.org/donate/.  Your

environmental gift will go so far and make a real difference.

 

Below is some additional information on key content sub-sections on

the Forest and Climate site.  We hope you will join us in our vision

of global ecological sustainability – and make more use of

Forests.org’s Internet sites.

 

Best wishes,

 

Glen Barry, M.S., Ph.D. (abd)

President

Forests.org, Inc

Madison, WI, USA

Phone:  +1 608 288 8102

Email:  gbarry@forests.org

 

 

 

 

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  Forest Conservation Archives

 

      Africa - http://forests.org/africa/

     America - http://forests.org/america/

     Asia - http://forests.org/asia/

     Brazil - http://forests.org/brazil/

     Canada - http://forests.org/canada/

     Europe & Russia - http://forests.org/europe/

     General Forest, Rainforest & Biodiversity –

       http://forests.org/general/

     Indonesia & Malaysia - http://forests.org/indomalay/

     Papua New Guinea - http://forests.org/png/

     South & Central America - http://forests.org/samerica/

     South Pacific - http://forests.org/spacific/

 

  Discuss Forest Conservation

  http://forests.org/web/

 

  Forest Conservation Maps

  http://forests.org/maps/

 

  Forest Conservation Search

  http://forests.org/search/

 

 

 

*** Climate Ark – Climate Change Portal – http://www.climateark.org/

 

  Climate Change News Links - http://www.climateark.org/news/

 

  Climate Change Links Directory - http://www.climateark.org/links/

 

  Climate Change News Archive -  

     http://www.climateark.org/articles/2002/recent/

 

  Climate Change Overview

     http://www.climateark.org/vital/