INTERNATIONAL
NATURAL RESOURCE
INFORMATION
American Bird Conservancy
(ABC)
ABC conserves native birds and their habitats throughout the Americas.
American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
ASIH is dedicated to the scientific study of fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The primary emphases of the Society
are to increase knowledge about these organisms, to disseminate that knowledge through publications, conferences,
symposia, and other means, and to encourage and support young scientists who will make future advances in these fields.
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
A network of more than 6,000 committed zoo and aquarium professionals, organizations and suppliers world-wide.
Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC)
A division of the US Department of Agriculture, AWIC is mandated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to provide information for improved animal
care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition.
Association for Tropical Biology
and Conservation (ATBC)
ATBC was founded in 1963 to promote research and to foster the exchange of ideas among biologists working in tropical environments.
ATBC has built its reputation on the publication of a high-quality, widely-cited journal, Biotropica, and on
the sponsorship of international symposia on diverse tropical issues.
Association of Field
Ornithologists (AFO)
AFO is a society of professional and amateur ornithologists dedicated to the scientific study
and dissemination of information about birds in their natural habitats. Founded in 1922 as the Northeastern Bird-banding Association,
AFO continues to be especially active in bird-banding and development of field techniques. Additionally, AFO encourages participation
of amateurs in research, and emphasizes conservation biology of birds. The geographic focus is the Western Hemisphere, with
contributions to the ornithology of the Neotropics particularly encouraged. The Association's annual meetings and its quarterly
Journal of Field Ornithology reflect these goals.
Audubon Society
Named after John James Audubon, the American ornithologist, naturalist, and wildlife painter, the National Audubon Society is a
non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife
for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. With a rich history dating back to 1905, NAS has since become
an international institution with 550,000 members and over 500 Audubon Chapters.
Bagheera
Bagheera endangered species site is a place where people can learn more about the endangered species issues, and then, should
they choose, be a voice to help save the animals from becoming extinct.
BBC Nature Online
A site for anyone interested in animals and the natural world around them. Brimming with wild life videos, games and
competitions. Produced by the world renowned BBC Natural History Unit.
Biogems
The BioGems initiative, a project of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is aimed at saving wildlands of exceptional
natural values. The twelve BioGems featured here span North and Central America; the site also features a watchlist of South
American wildlands under threat. All of these natural treasures are imperiled by logging, mining, oil drilling or other
commercial exploitation. We have selected these BioGems not only for their ecological importance and their imminent
plight, but also because well-coordinated web activism by people like you can make a very big difference in saving them.
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their
habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
BIRDNET
The ornithological information source sponsored by the Ornithological Council, a public information organization
founded by seven North American Professional Ornithological Societies.
Butterfly
Web Site
The Butterfly Website is the world's oldest and largest website dedicated to butterflies and moths. Here you'll find
hundreds of articles about butterflies and moths, an extensive clipart collection, many photographs, videos, butterfly
gardening tips, links to purchase butterflies for your wedding or special event, and a lot more.
Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species,
great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
Conservation International (CI)
CI focuses on trying to preserve and promote awareness about the world's most endangered biodiversity
through scientific programs, local awareness campaigns, and economic initiatives. CI also works with
multinational institutions, provides economic analyses for national leaders, and promotes "best practices"
that allow for sustainable development.
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
CITES is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in
specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their
natural communities. We focus our programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental
threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological
diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction.
Earth Island Institute
Site provides in-depth information and resources from our project network, award-winning journalism
from the Earth Island Journal, and tools to address the environmental challenges we face.
Endangered Species Coalition
The Endangered Species Coalition is a national network of hundreds of conservation, scientific, education,
religious, sporting, outdoor recreation, business and community organizations working to protect our nation’s
disappearing wildlife and last remaining wild places.
EnviroLink
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental
resources since 1991.
Environment B2B
Encompassing environmental groups, organizations, agencies and companies. Categories include environmental jobs, biodiversity, air quality, global change,
environmental health, education, environmental law, hazardous waste.
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
EIA was established in 1984 to investigate, expose and campaign against the illegal trade in wildlife
and the destruction of our natural environment. The European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) is established in 1993 with the purpose to further
European nature conservation by bridging gap between science and policy. ECNC has become a renowned expertise
centre offering support to the development, review and implementation of European nature conservation policies.
European
Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
The conservation and sustainable use of Europe’s nature and biodiversity is ECNC's core business.
Forests Forever
Mission: To protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational,
legislative and electoral activities. Second, our Mission is to recruit, educate and train articulate
and effective organizers in the skills needed to convey our position on the state's forests and wildlife habitat
to the citizens of California.
Friends
of the Earth International
The largest international network of environmental groups in the world, represented in 61
countries--uniting close to 1 million activists internationally.
Great
Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)
Greenpeace
International
Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation
to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and
peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.
Harvard
Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is the public museum of Harvard University's three natural
history institutions: the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and
Geological Museum. This complex features exhibitions, public programs, and educational resources that
reflect the collections and research of the four parent museums.
Herpetologists' League
The Herpetologists' League, established in 1946, is an international organization of people devoted to
studying herpetology -- the biology of amphibians and reptiles.
Honor
the Earth
A national foundation and advocacy organization that supports front line Native environmental work. Our
mission is to increase funding and public support for Native communities protecting the Earth we all share.
International
Rivers Network
The IRN web site is a global resource for all people who share our concern for protecting and restoring the
world's rivers and ensuring respect for the rights of riverine communities. The site provides activists
throughout the world with important, in-depth background and current information on river campaigns.
Integrated
Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
A US federal program, ITIS is an authoritative taxonomic information source on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North
America and the world.
International
Species Information System (ISIS)
ISIS is an international non-profit membership organization (U.S. 501c3) which serves nearly 500 zoological
institutional members, from 54 countries, worldwide. ISIS supports conservation and preservation of species,
by helping member facilities manage their living collections.
National
Wildlife Federation (NWF)
NWF is the nation's largest member-supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, businesses and
government to protect nature, wildlife and the world we share.
Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
NRDC's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land, and water -- and to defend
endangered natural places. We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central
ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.
Natural Science Collection Alliance
The Natural Science Collections Alliance is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit association that supports natural science collections,
their human resources, the institutions that house them, and their research activities for the benefit of science and society.
Nature Conservancy
Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy is the world's leading private, international conservation group. It preserves
habitats and species by saving the lands and waters they need to survive. The 1-million-plus
members have helped protect more than 11 million acres of habitat in the United States and
nearly 60 million acres in Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
It currently manages 1,340 preserves, the largest system of private nature sanctuaries
in the world.
Naturenet
Naturenet is a voluntary enterprise to provide a good resource for practical conservation
on the Web. Based in the UK, most of the information available on Naturenet relates to the
UK, particularly England, but also includes references to other countries. Naturenet is
intended for those interested in the countryside, its management, and nature conservation.
As well as anyone who enjoys visiting the countryside this includes ecologists, rangers,
wardens, volunteers, students, tree wardens, biologists, birdwatchers, land agents and farmers.
NatureServe
NatureServe is a network connecting science with conservation in an Online Encyclopedia of Life
Oceania Project
Non-profit education and research organisation dedicated to raising awareness about Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)
and the ocean environment.
Pesticide Action
Network North America (PANNA)
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) is a nonprofit citizen-based NGO that advocates adoption of ecologically sound practices in place
of pesticide use. PANNA works with over 120 affiliated organizations in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., and more than 400 PAN partner groups around
the world, to promote sustainable agriculture, food security and social justice, and demand that development agencies and governments redirect
support from pesticides to safe alternatives.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Founded in 1985, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has been working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and
around those forests.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
RSVB is Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity, supported by over 1,000,000 members, including over 150,000 under 18 years old.
Shark Trust
For all those interested in the marine environment and the facinating group of animals
known as sharks, this is the site for you. Established in 1997, the Shark Trust promotes
the study, management and conservation of sharks, skates and rays.
Sierra Club
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself. We are the largest and
most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States, founded by John Muir.
Smithsonian Institution,
National Museum of Natural History
Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO)
TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade monitoring programme of WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN-The World Conservation Union.
Tree of Life
A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens and scientists across the country. We augment rigorous scientific
analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO was established in 1945, has its headquarters in Paris, and 73 field offices and units in different parts of the world.
United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fundación Vida
Silvestre Argentina
Wilderness foundation of Argentina, dedicated to preserving the nation's wildlife.
Wetlands International
The organization;s mission is to sustain and restore wetlands, their resources and biodiversity.
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)
Global voice for the protection of whales, dolphins and their environments.
Wildlands Project
The mission of The Wildlands Project is to protect and restore the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of
a connected system of wildlands.
Wilderness Society
Only US national conservation organization that is devoted primarily to public lands protection and management issues. Headquartered in
Washington, DC, the Society employs a combination of advocacy, analysis, and public education in its campaigns to improve management
of America's national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and other natural places.
World Conservation Union/International
Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
IUCN's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of
nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems.
World Wildlife Fund Global Network
(WWF)
Zoocheck Canada
Canadian animal protection charity established to protect wildlife in captivity and in the wild.
SPECIALIZED BOOKSTORES ON THE WEB
Conservation Biology, Quantitative Ecology, Natural History, Environmental Science, Ecotourism
Buteo Books, specializing in ornithology.
Longitude Books, ecotourism
University of Chicago Press: Biological Sciences
Zoo Book Sales / Serpent's Tale NHBD, natural history books from around the world.
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