General Search Engines and Internet Starting Points

Altavista (Web Index)

ArchiePlexForm (to search FTP Areas)

Internet Newsgroups

LANIC's WWW Virtual Library

List Servers

Ecological list servers

Lycos, The Catalog of the Internet

The Muscat Web Explorer

Starting Points for Internet Exploration

Virtual Libraries

WebCrawler Searching System

WWW Virtual Library

WWWW - the World Wide Web Worm

Yahoo

Environmentally Focused Starting Points

Centre for Earth Observation

CIESIN Gateway System

Country Information Sources

Davinci GMS Gateway

Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Linkages

Ecology Web Sites

ENDS (Environmental Data Services)

Environmental Information Servers (very comprehensive)

Environmental News Network

Environmental Organization Web Directory

European Topic Centre for Nature Conservation (ETC/NC)

GENIE Casual User Interface

Global Change Master Directory (NASA)

International Academy of the Environment

International Environment Resources

NEIRC (National Environmental Resources Center)

Protected Areas Virtual Library latest site added 6 November 1997. A detailed inventory of Web sites dealing with protected areas.

UNEP-United Nations Environment Programme

IUCN-the World Conservation Union

U.S. Committee for the National Institute for the Environment

WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature-UK

WWW Virtual Library: Environment

News

The Green Disk A journal of contemporary environmental issues

INTERNET Magazine

News Link

Antarctic and Arctic

Alaska (EROS)

Arctic Circle

Barents Region

British Antarctic Survey

GRID-Arendal (UNEP)

Lapland Forest Damage Project

Norwegian Polar Institute

World Data Centre, C (Glaciology)

Biodiversity

ARACHNODATA (information on arachnid animals)

BENE Hypermail

Monthly compositions of mail on the BENE listserver

BDT Base de Dados Tropical Web

BIN21 sites in Australia ; Brazil ; Ecuador ; Finland Biodiversity Action Network (BioNet)

Belize Biodiversity Information System

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (at Harvard)

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web server

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network (BENE)

Biodiversity Forum (links to information on the web)

Biodiversity Forum (US)

Bioline Publications

BirdLife

Communications for a Sustainable Future

Assorted links to a variety of conservation information resources

Conservation Biology Listserver

Conservation International

CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)

Endangered Species (USA bias)

European Centre for Nature Conservation

Hong Kong Bird Watching Society

INBio (Costa Rica)

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

Journals Browse (Life Sciences)

Ocean Voice International

Pangaea (Patagonian Wildlife)

RSPB (from 30 June 1998)

Sierra Club

Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Gopher

Species 2000 Enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity

Coastal, Marine and Fresh Water

Aquatic Conservation Network

Fisheries, Oceans and the Environment

International Year of the Reef (NOAA)

International Year of the Reef

Ocean Voice International

The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) providing information on oil spills from tankers

Worldwide Wetlands, Hydrology and Coastal Links

Education

Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology

Costa Rica on the Path to Sustainability

Environment Education

The Globe Program

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

Knowledge Exchange for K-12 Education

Kortright Centre (Canada)

Youth In Action Network

The World Resources Institute

Environmental Information

African Studies at U. Penn

Agenda 21, Earth Summit

American Library Congress ~ Country Studies/Area Handbook Program

ARCOS (Albertine Rift Conservation Society)

CARPE, Central African Regional Program for the Environment

Country Environmental Studies

The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System

Country Environmental Studies

Department of Environmental Management (Moscow State University)

ECOCART (International Environmental Databases)

Envirolink

A non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating all information that relates to the environment

Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)

EIS-News on Sub Saharan Africa

European Environment Agency

Icarus Ireland

The Fish & Wildlife Information Exchange

Friends of the Earth (UK)

G7 Environment and Natural Resources Management (ENRM)

The ENRM allows free registration and interactive editing of global environmental information resources. It also provides a directory of Environmentalists

Global Land Information System

Information Center for the Environment

International Arid Lands Consortium

National Wildlife Federation

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

The Natural Heritage Network Central Server (ABI and TNC-US)

(covers the Americas)

Planet Earth Home Page

Small Islands Information Network

Spatial Ecology

TRAFFIC

Svanhovd Environmental Centre

UNEP GRID Arendal

UNEP Harmonizing Environmental Measurements

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

19th Session of the World Heritage Committee

World Resources Institute

Environmental Science, Technology and Research

Biodiversity & Worldmap

BioInformatics gopher at ANU

Cambridge School of Biological Sciences

Frontier (expeditions)

National Atlas Information Service

a WWW-based GIS

NORUT Information Technology Ltd.

IT, remote sensing, GIS, modelling

On-line Environmental and Geographic Information Systems

Remote Sensing and Wildlife Biology

UMANITOBA (environmental science) Gopher server

U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)

Indigenous Peoples

Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agricultural Research and Development (CIKARD)

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

NativeWeb

University of Minnesota Forestry Bibliography

Meteorology

Centre for Atmospheric Science

Meteorology Information from UEA

National Climatic Data Center (US)

Microorganisms, Genetic Resources and Biotechnology

European Union. Genetic resources in agriculture

The Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN)

MSDN IRRO Data

WFCC World Data Center on Microorganisms

Dendrome, A Genome Database for Forest Trees

W.M. Keck Centre for Genome Informatics

Biotechnology Information Center (BIC)

BIC provides access to a variety of information services and publications covering many aspects of agricultural biotechnology including links to Ag Biotech-related WWW home pages.

Papers and Useful Texts

Bibliography on Biodiversity Assessment Methodologies

Chapman and Hall (Publisher)

Endangered Ecosystems of the United States :

A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation (Noss et al. , 1995).

Gap Analysis

The Multilaterals Project

Numerous texts of international conventions

Plants

Association of Systematics Collections

Australian National Botanic Gardens Biodiversity Server

Botanical Garden Mapping

Canadian Botanical Conservation Network

Canadian Forest Management System

Canadian Forests and Forestry

CIDA Forestry Advisers Network

CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research

European Forest Institute

European Tropical Research Network (ETFRN)

Forestry Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Forestry Library

Institute of Forest Genetics Dendrome Project

Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF)

Missouri Botanical Garden

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Seventh American Forest Congress

Spatial Information for the Sustainable Management of Forests

Texas Plant Diversity Information Center (PDIC)

The Sustainable Forests Directory

Policy, Finance and Legal

American Legistlative Information

California Institute of Public Affairs

Convention on Biological Diversity

Economics of biodiversity

European Centre for Development Policy Management

G7 Global Information Infrastructure

Inter-American Development Bank

UNDP ftp

UNDP Gopher

The World Bank

Social Sciences

Brazilian Statistical and Geographic Foundation

Millennium Institute

State of the World Indicators (human population and diet, ozone, etc.)

Socialeconomic Data and Applications Center

Social Indicators of Development (CIESIN and the World Bank)

Social Science Server - ANU (The Australian National University)

Trends in Developing Economies (CIESIN and the World Bank)

WWW Related Software and General Computing

World of Computers

SunSite

SunSITE Northern Europe 'The Archive' at Imperial College

SunSITE Japan

Novell Web Site

Hypermail

Word Perfect to HTML converter, FTP site

Very useful, especially for the development of WCMC's Web pages

Olivetti Research Ltd

Asian Institute of Technology

University of Cambridge Computer Lab

URL-Minder: Web Robot!

Zoos

Electronic Zoo

Colchester Zoo

Italian Zoo

Zoological E-mail Directory