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UNESCO World Heritage Centre editor's pick

http://whc.unesco.org/

seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity

Added: Nov. 20, 2004 | Rate It

Gondwana Forests Sanctuary popular

http://www.nativeforest.org/campaigns/gondwana/

6 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

the Native Forest Network seeks to protect and restore the life of Gondwana by creating an international sanctuary of the Earth's southernmost forests in South America, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere

Added: Jul. 29, 2001 | Rate It

Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas

http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/bioinventory/bioinventory.html

a databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal occurrences on the world's biosphere reserves and other protected areas from the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programs of UNESCO

Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation

http://www.btrf.com/

seeks to establish a new conservation paradigm that promotes the planning, development and implementation of model conservation areas in Borneo

Added: Jan. 07, 2008 | Rate It

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

http://www.cpaws.org/

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

protects Canada’s wild ecosystems in parks, wilderness and similar natural areas, preserving the full diversity of habitats and their species

Added: Feb. 11, 2001 | Rate It

Friends of Ecological Reserves

http://www.ecoreserves.bc.ca/

raises awareness, provides information and supports eco-reserves - permanent sanctuaries to preserve natural ecosystems and rare and endangered plant and animal species - in British Columbia, Canada

Added: Sep. 25, 2002 | Rate It

Fundacion Jatun Sacha

http://www.jatunsacha.org/sub1sub2_regiones.php?id_menu=3

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

dedicated to the conservation, investigation, management of ecologically important habitats, and environmental education and community development, in Ecuador

Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It

Maryland Alliance for Greenway Improvement and Conservation (MAGIC)

http://www.magicalliance.org/

works to protect and restore ecological richness and biodiversity in Maryland, including expanding protected lands in Maryland and linking them to protected lands in adjacent states

Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It

National Park Trust

http://www.parktrust.org/

6 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a private land conservancy dedicated exclusively to America's Parklands, saving nationally significant wildlife, scenic wonders and historic monuments through land acquisition

Added: Feb. 06, 2001 | Rate It

Natural Areas Association, The

http://www.naturalarea.org/

publishes the Natural Areas Journal and seeks to to advance preservation of natural diversity across landscapes and ecosystems

Added: Jan. 11, 2003 | Rate It

NatureNet

http://www.nature.nps.gov/

the US National Park Service's natural resource website; includes information on the biology, geology, water and air in National Parks

Added: Mar. 23, 2001 | Rate It

No Place to Hide: Effects of Climate Change on Protected Areas

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwfparksbro.pdf

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

report from WWF which concludes climate change is now taking place impacting protected areas, and that many animals and plants show significant alterations in range or behavior as a result (pdf)

Added: Sep. 09, 2003 | Rate It

Nova Scotia Nature Trust, The

http://www.nsnt.ca/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

seeks to protect significant natural areas on private land; working at the community level to preserve lands of local, regional, or provincial significance

Added: Jun. 26, 2002 | Rate It

Protected Areas Conservation Trust, Belize

http://www.pactbelize.org/

promotes the conservation and management for sustainable use of Belizean natural and cultural resources, to enhance and sustain the quality of life for all Belizeans

Added: Feb. 11, 2001 | Rate It

RefugeNet

http://refugenet.org/

the National Wildlife Refuge Association provides a window into the National Wildlife Refuge System, lands set aside by the American people to protect our diverse wildlife heritage

Added: Feb. 08, 2002 | Rate It

REFUGEnet - National Wildlife Refuge Association

http://www.refugenet.org/

dedicated to protecting, enhancing and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System, lands and waters set aside by the american people to protect America's diverse wildlife heritage

Added: Oct. 15, 2002 | Rate It

Running Pure: The importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/runningpurereport.pdf

WWF examines the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities (pdf)

Added: Sep. 09, 2003 | Rate It

Tarkine National Coalition

http://www.tarkine.org/

9 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

works to establish a Tarkine Wilderness World Heritage Area in northwest Tasmania, Australia; home to Australia's largest temperate rainforest and Tasmania's largest remaining unprotected wilderness

Added: Jul. 31, 2001 | Rate It

Valhalla Wilderness Society

http://www.vws.org/

works in British Columbia, Canada both for the establishment of protected parks to attain better forest practices outside of parks

Added: Oct. 19, 2005 | Rate It

Vanuatu Protected Areas Initiative (VPAI)

http://www.positiveearth.org/vpai/

works to support rural people in this Southwest Pacific nation who are striving to find solutions to their own environmental challenges

Added: Mar. 12, 2008 | Rate It

Wild Russia

http://www.wild-russia.org/

promoting wild nature in Russia's "Zapovedniks", a network of strictly protected scientific nature reserves

Added: Jan. 06, 2004 | Rate It

World Bank/WWF Forest Alliance, The

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/envext.nsf/80ByDocName/WBWWFForestAlliance

a strategic, performance-based, global partnership, formed in response to the global forest crisis; working to create protected areas and independently certified management of the world's production forests

Added: Jun. 01, 2004 | Rate It