Biodiversity Links
The CBD is a global, comprehensive agreement addressing all aspects of biological diversity: genetic resources,
species, and ecosystems. Primary site for information, implementation, reports, documents and links.
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ecology and Biodiversity - http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/
Reviews Internet information sources on ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.
A private, international conservation group, protecting endangered species and ecosystems through land acquisition,
science, and partnerships.
The world's largest environmental knowledge network: information on the international convention on biodiversity, IUCN
environmental collaborations with the World Bank, global conservation congresses, and more.
Field-based nonprofit organization that uses science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote
biodiversity conservation in tropical rain forests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide. Works in 23 countries
in Latin America, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region.
Clearing-House Mechanism for Convention on Biological Diversity - http://www.biodiv.org/chm/
Information resources, on-line forums, etc., related to the world-wide implementation of the Convention.
The scale of over-exploitation of animals and plants for trade aroused such concern for the survival of species that an
international treaty was drawn up in 1973 to protect wildlife against such over-exploitation and to prevent international
trade from threatening species with extinction. Web site includes database of CITES-listed flora and fauna.
Biological information, especially the environment and biodiversity, from Charles Sturt University.
Annual program of bird surveys designed to provide a continent-wide perspective of population change.
A network of scientists and conservationists belonging to national and regional working groups. The mission of the
DAPTF is to determine the nature, extent and causes of declines of amphibians throughout the world, and to promote
means by which declines can be halted or reversed.
Biodiversity Assessment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre - http://www.wcmc.org.uk/species/
Supports policy and action for the conservation and sustainable management of biological diversity, by providing
integrated information on status, trends, distribution and use.
Their mission is to conserve biological diversity by developing and executing programs to study, save, restore, and
manage wisely species and their habitats.
Searchable directory covers the Western Hemisphere (U.S., Canada, Caribbean, Central America, South America).
Association for Biodiversity Information - http://www.abi.org/
Provides conservation information for use by environmental planners and land managers.
Disseminates biological information of environmental and industrial interest, hoping to contribute directly to the
conservation and sustainable use of Brazil's biological resources. Languages: Portuguese, with English pages for
javascript-enabled browsers.
A Geographic Approach to Planning for Biological Diversity. Providing regional assessments of the conservation
status of native vertebrate species and natural land cover types, to be applied to land management activities.
Measuring biodiversity value & selecting priority areas for conservation. Extensive resource on the science of
biodiversity, from the Natural History Museum of London.
Database by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
International collaborative project with the goal of providing accurate scientific information and predictive models of the
status of biodiversity and sustainability of the use of the Earth's biotic resources, and to build a world-wide capacity
for the science of biodiversity.
Cooperative effort between U.S. state fish and wildlife agencies, state parks and customers and businesses of the
outdoors. Will provide funding to implement conservation strategies and provide recreational and educational
opportunities.
An initiative of the Summit of the Americas to provide greater and more useful access to biodiversity information
throughout the hemisphere.
Describes the need for an International Biodiversity Observation Year, events proposed, benefits anticipated.
Promotes biodiversity conservation in many of the world's most biologically diverse areas. Web site has information
on biodiversity around the world, as well as on public policy considerations. The BSP is a consortium of World
Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute.
Works in the Asia/Pacific Region to provide grants for community-based enterprises that directly depend on
biodiversity. BCN has two goals: 1) promoting community-based conservation and 2) testing the hypothesis that if
local communities receive sufficient benefits from a biodiversity-linked enterprise, then they will act to conserve it.
Biodiversity Group Department of Environment and Heritage - http://www.anca.gov.au/
Part of Environment Australia. Special programs in various interest areas to choose from.
University of Nevada Biological Resources Research Center and Nevada Biodiversity Initiative - http://www.brrc.unr.edu/
Conservation resources including species lists and land use data.
Links to Internet biodiversity resources.
References and links to resources on biodiversity and related topics.
Concerned with California's biological diversity and its conservation in the broadest sense: onsite and offsite
conservation of the native flora and fauna, collections of germplasm amassed for agricultural, medicinal, and industrial
uses, and collections of genetic stocks, tissues, cells, and DNA developed for teaching and research purposes.
Biodiversity Atlas, "unexplored habitats", forum, and articles on biodiversity.
Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network - http://www.ibin.org/
A mechanism to exchange information about experiences and projects and to increase collaboration among
indigenous groups working on common causes related to biodiversity use and conservation.
Facilitates regional forums on program development to promote biodiversity around the world. Website provides
access to papers and articles, information on BPCD activities and information on the Global Biodiversity Forum
(GBF).
The Biodiversity Information Network is an international collaborative network of agencies involved in the management
and presentation of biodiversity information. BIN21 was set up as an informal, collaborative and distributed network
consisting of a series of participating nodes.
WCMC provides information services on the conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources and
supports others in the development of their own information systems. Thematic programmes focus on Arctic, marine,
and forest environments, as well as protected areas, biodiversity assessment, and international trade in wildlife.
GMBA is a new Diversitas-network on mountain biodiversity. Invites submission of contributions to the scientific
GMBA conference in Switzerland on Sept.7-10, 2000.
A great place for student and teacher alike to find information on endangered species anywhere in the world.
Preserving biological diversity through wildlife and habitat conservation, environmental education, and captive breeding
programs for endangered wildlife.
Access to WWW sites that provide information on genetic diversity, species diversity, ecological diversity, and
geopolitical perspectives. From the National Biological Information Infrastructure.
Information on biodiversity conservation and use in Belgium and worldwide. Clearing House under the Convention on
Biological Diversity. Partnering role for Niger, D.R. of Congo and Mauritania to bring information on biodiversity for
those countries on the Internet.
An attempt to present a wide-ranging resource of information for biodiversity data management in the World Wide
Web, and promote the effective use of computers for handling biological software development projects.
Research papers (PDF files) and project summaries related to economic and policy aspects of biodiversity protection.
Topics include ecosystem valuation, endangered species laws, and habitat conservation.
A partnership of UK organisations collaborating to create an information network of biodiversity data that is accessible
through the Internet.
Explains what biodiversity is, and presents some of the issues involved.
Canadian Wildlife Service site, about endangered species, species at risk, recovery plans, and related topics.
Personally maintained website with information and links about several aspects of biodiversity: biological, ecological,
physical, chemical, social (e.g., population growth), economical and juridical. Some links in Dutch language or of
particular relevance to Netherlands.
As part of a larger project designed for the management of threatened, endangered, and sensitive species (TES) on
Department of Defense (DoD) lands in the Southeastern United States, animal species profiles are being developed
by the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.
This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at the importance of biodiversity from more than just the
anthropomorpahsized reasons. It also looks at some of the actions and inactions in the politcal arena concerning
biodiversity and biosafety.
What is biodiversity, what threatens it, why is it important, and what are ecologists doing to better understand it?
From Ecological Society of America.
The world list of >1000 threatened birds, plus information on threats to birds.
Biodiversity in urban environments
Offers people throughout the world who cannot attend GBF gatherings the opportunity to participate in discussion on
biodiversity-related issues.
Endangered species fact sheets and related resources.
Excellent list of articles on biodiversity and the impending extinction of thousands of species.
The Canadian Museum of Nature's quarterly magazine Global biodiversity covered Canadian and international
biodiversity news in science, politics, education, community and individual initiatives between 1991 and 1999.
Bibliography of papers on methods for assessing biodiversity. Last modified 27 August 1998.
Calls attention to the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure
and the demands of economic development. Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem
and searching for possible solutions. Online book from National Academic Press.
Collection of on-line papers about the conservation of Australia's biodiversity.
Non-profit company dedicated to the preservation of aquatic biodiversity in the Southeastern U.S. through captive
propagation of rare, threatened, and endangered species of fish.
Links to value of wildlife and biodiversity valuation.
Biodiversity Journal advocates conservation, sustainable development and wise use of the earth's biological
resources. Published by Tropical Conservancy.
An extensive collection of articles, links and other resources related to biodiversity issues in New Zealand.
Contrary to the image presented to the public, most conservation is not based on sound scientific principles.
The maintenance of the diversity present in and among populations of the many species used directly in agriculture,
or used as sources of genes, in habitats where such diversity arose and continues to grow.
In situ conservation of crop plants involves the conservation on-farm of local crop cultivars (or landraces) with the
active participation of farmers. IPGRI documentation.
IPGRI in situ conservation page.
Prepared as an input to discussion on the form the Convention on Biological Diversity clearing house for biodiversity
information would take, and the manner in which it would operate. (FTP site).
140 pages of tabular data with supporting text and graphics, on global biodiversity. Topics are covered in a concise
way, using tables supported by minimal text and graphics. They include country species diversity, threatened
species, national Red Data Books, major food crops, domestic livestock, marine resources, tropical forests, protected
areas and systematics collections. (FTP site).
Substantial amounts of detailed biodiversity data exist for the world, and these data can be used to guide
conservation priorities. WCMC compiled key data in order to identify areas of high species richness and endemism.
(FTP site).
A region-by-region account of select issues in marine biological diversity. Each account includes descriptive text on
the oceanography, elements of biodiversity (including estimates of species richness and endemism), and a
discussion of marine fisheries and their current status. (FTP site).
Outlines some approaches to assessment of the status of national biodiversity and the sustainability of its use,
focussing mainly on developing nations. (FTP site).
This study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, previously unavailable, to provide a comprehensive assessment
of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed
moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed. Priorities for conservation action are identified on the
basis of a country's relative importance for a given habitat and the extent to which it is protected. National importance
for biodiversity is also examined in relation to natural and foreign investments in protected areas. (FTP site).
Provides an overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing
world. (FTP site).
This document provides information on inland waters and their biodiversity, and includes the first global assessment of
areas of special importance for freshwater biodiversity, based on expert opinion and data. It also includes a first
comparative analysis of major river basins, using indicators of biodiversity, the condition of catchment basins and
pressures on water resources, in order to generate indices of importance and risk. (FTP site).
Full text online of UNEP-WCMC series of project results.
Tree Conservation Information Service. Includes The World List of Threatened Trees (survey of the conservation status
of trees species worldwide) and Tree Conservation Database.
Biodiversity and Conservation of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - http://www.flas.ufl.edu/kinahome
This project is helping researchers and Park personnel to identify culturally significant plant resources and to detect
which useful species are most vulnerable to over- harvesting or habitat destruction.
A website that covers all aspects of plant and animal protection within the US National Park Service.
From the Australian National Botanic Gardens comes lists of the engangered, vulnerable and extinct species of
Australian plants.
Research and capabilities related to biodiversity in Australia's science research agency.
Has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline
dataset for studies of global biodiversity. It will also provide a simple access point enabling users to link from here to
other data systems for all groups of organisms, using direct species-links.
Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to
develop information systems of their own. Programmes concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine and
freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. Alos addresses the relationship between
trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment.
ETI's World Biodiversity Database is a continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at
documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make this important biological information
worldwide accessible.