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Conservation International editor's pick popular

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

6 out of 10 stars (7 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

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

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

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

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://faculty.apec.umn.edu/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

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.org/

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

Michael Lefsky's Homepage

http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/~lefsky/home.html

outlines Professor Lefsky's background and research interests in ecology via remote sensing technology
Added: Aug. 19, 2010 | Rate It

National Gap Analysis Program--USGS

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

9 out of 10 stars (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

Sassan Saatchi's Homepage

http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/carbon/

from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a description of Saatchi's work involving remote sensing of Earth's vegetation
Added: Aug. 19, 2010 | Rate It

Xerces Society, The

http://www.xerces.org/

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

http://www.y2y.net/

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

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