Links   on the Global  Enviroment

• Thomas, the Library of Congress's legislative information server, including the full text of all bills and the Congressional Record since 1989.
• The Global 200 Ecoregions, from the WWF.
• The World Wildlife Fund US (World Wildlife Fund for Nature).
• The Nature Conservancy.
• Human development reports from the United Nations Development Programme, including a detailed analysis of the human development index.
• The United Nations Development Programme.
• The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN, the World Conservation Union).
• The New York Botanical Garden.
• The World Resources Institute.
  

• Bioregions of Australia, from the Australian government.
• 1-km Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometry (AVHRR) land cover data from the Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center Distributed Data Archive Center. Land cover data sets now available for every continent.

• The Tree of Life project, a strict cladistic representation of all of the major and many minor groups of organisms, with descriptions and some images.
• Species 2000, an effort to put online all known species.
• Microscopy UK, which has nice images of some smaller taxa, as well as their magazine of amateur (photo)microscopy.
• Animals:
• A collection of  zoological web links from a biology course at California State University at Fullerton.

• Thai Shrimp Farming (and mangrove destruction) case study from the Trade and Environment Database at American University.
• Satellite photos of fires in Borneo, from NASA..
•  European Forestry Institute.

• The full text of a book on Nonindigenous Aquatic and Selected Terrestrial Species of Florida, by a researcher with the National Biological Service. Good long bibliography with lots of citations.
• Information on pests and biological control from the National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS).
• European gypsy moth information from NAPIS; Asian gypsy moth information at the same site.
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• Purple loosestrife information from NAPIS.
• A review article about the effectiveness of Brazilian phorid flies against fire ants.

• The National Gap Analysis Program
  

• National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition, a controversial group of landowners, developers, utilities, and others dedicated to making the ESA less stringent and friendlier to property owners.
• The Endangered Species and Wetlands Report, the online version of the "nonpartisan monthly newsletter of politics, regulation and law on the Endangered Species Act, wetlands, and takings."
• The homepage of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

• United Nations Development Programme

• The US Forest Service (USFS).
• The US Department of Commerce.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• The US Department of the Interior.
• The National Park Service (NPS).
• The Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
• The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
• The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) which, although promising, apparently has only small portions digitized; they do have maps for specific wetlands, but not the whole country.
• The US Geological Survey (USGS).
  
• Thomas, the Library of Congress's legislative information server, including the full text of all bills and the Congressional Record since 1989.

•   Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) information.
• Querying the FAO database.
• The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), as well as UNEP's Global Resource Information Database (GRID).
• The United Nations Development Programme.
• The World Bank,
• The World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC).
• Information from Conservation International.
• The Woods Hole Research Center.
• The World Wildlife Fund US (World Wide Fund for Nature).
• The Nature Conservancy.
• The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
• The New York Botanical Garden.
• The World Resources Institute.

• A list of map-related web sites from the University of Texas.

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Date of last change 9-7-07
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