Biodiversity
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Marine research and policy institute
- Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED (FLU)
- Research group working on sustainable livelihoods from forest and land use
- Rainforest Foundation, UK
- NGO campaigning for indigenous control and management of rainforests
- Redefining Progress
- US based organisation focusing on indicators of sustainability
- Pacific Vacancies
- Environmental jobs in the Pacific
- Oceans Blue Foundation
- Canadian organisation promoting environmentally responsible coastal tourism
- Environmental Assessment Institute / Institut for Miljøvurdering, Denmark
- Danish environmental research institute
- Ocean Conservancy
- US based marine conservation NGO campaigning for ocean wilderness areas
- Reef Check
- Reef conservation through volunteer surveys
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
- Scientific research on pollution in the Arctic region
- Linkages between ecosystems and human well-being
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005
- This report synthesises and integrates findings related to biodiversity from the four Millennium Assessment (MA) Working Groups (Conditions and Trends, Scenarios, Responses and Sub-global Assessments), in response to requests for info...
- African experience with assessment of protected area management effectiveness
- N. Dudley; J. Hurd; A. Belokurov / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005
- This report summarises contemporary African experience with assessment of management effectiveness, drawing on a range of case studies (in South Africa, Congo Basin, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa), including outputs...
- Information for effective biodiversity conservation and livelihood protection in the inland waters, Eastern Africa
- W. Darwall; K. Smith; T. Lowe; J.-C. Vié / World Conservation Union, 2005
- Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in Eastern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of thi...
- Implementation of the Precautionary Principle in natural resource management
- R. Cooney / Precautionary Principle Project, 2004
- This study represents an initial examination of issues surrounding the meaning, acceptance and implementation of the precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management (NRM...
- What are the uses of poverty-conservation mapping?
- M. Snel / World Conservation Union, 2004
- Poverty-conservation mapping is a useful approach to explore linkages between development (people) and conservation (nature). Although poverty-environment mapping in biodiversity applications has been limited, there are numerous poten...
- Ecosystem changes continues to worsen putting MDGs at risk
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005
- This report, synthesises the findings of large multi-agency attempt to comprehensively evaluate all of the world’s major ecosystems. It finds that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth ...
- Conflicts of interest among the three big international conservationist organisations
- M. Chapin / Worldwatch Institute, 2004
- This essay argues that because of corporate and government money flowing into the three big international organisations that dominate the world’s conservation agenda, their programmes have been marked by growing conflicts of inte...
- Critical review of ecoagriculture
- M. Altieri; T. Farvar / World Conservation Union, 2004
- This paper critically reviews the concept and vision of ecoagriculture and the initiative of Ecoagriculture Partners . The paper points out that supporters of Ecoagriculture (ECOAG) adhere to two pervasive but flawed assumptions: (a) ...
- Caribbean coral under threat
- J Maidens / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2004
- This report details a project conducted by the World Resources Institute examining the threat to coral reefs throughout the Caribbean region. Data presented in the report has been manipulated and presented in maps so as to show the scale a...
- How microfinance can play an important role in the conservation of biological diversity
- C. Araya; R. Christen / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004
- This paper argues that microfinance can play an important role in the conservation of biological diversity. It identifies the manners in which best practice microfinance can assist projects to achieve their environmental goals, while ...
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, UK (ITE)
- UK governmental agency, part of the National Environment Research Council (NERC), researching into all aspects of the UK terrestrial environment and its resources. Maintains a network of specialist research stations including the Environmental Information Centre (EIC), which aims to advance the use of computers for handling data/information in terrestrial ecology and to provide access to NERC data...
- Biology Service, USA Department of the Interior
- US Federal agency charged with creating an ecosystem inventory for the USA.
- Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Information on 18 site-specific projects, aims to provide the environmental biology research community with the opportunity to utilise the sites for research projects. Projects are both short and long-term and focus on phenomena manifest at the sites. Sites are mostly in US but also include a forest site in Puerto Rico and sites in Antarctica. Also maintains an archive of datasets, searchable bibl...
- Gap Analysis Program
- WWW server with information on biodiversity in the USA, including datasets, maps and land ownership information.
- Land Use and Land Cover Change Project (LUCC)
- Research programme looking at the nature and impact of global land use and land cover changes, involving both natural and social sciences. Component of the IGBP (see separate entry). WWW site has information on the programme, outline of proposed science-research plan, supporting bibliography, contact addresses. There are separate WWW site for the South East Asian component of this programme, c...
- Greenpeace International
- International environmental pressure group
- Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB - Mabnet)
- UNESCO programme of research and training intended to develop the basis, with the natural and social sciences, for the rational use and conservation of biosphere resources and for the improvement of the global relationship between people and the environment. Current programme interests include: promotion of biosphere reserves; reconciliation of nature conservation and biological diversity with soc...
- European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
- ECNC provides research support for national and European policies related to nature conservation and researches the impact of policy on biological/landscape diversity. Coordinates a network of national conservation agencies, research centres and university departments. Information services include: (a) WWW server: Includes: information on the organisation; directory of European nature conserva...
- Biological Conservation Newsletter
- Newsletter from the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes news items, recent publications list, conference announcements, etc.
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- GEF provides grants and concessional funding for projects programmes which support the global environment and promote sustainable economic growth. Focuses on: climate change; biological diversity; international waters; stratospheric ozone. Program managed by UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank. WWW site includes background information on the program, full text of some GEF documentation, links to relat...
