BIOSIS is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge for the common good. By accumulating the world's largest collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature and organizing this information for easy access, BIOSIS provides vital sources of information for life scientists. Related link to biodiversity and zoology.
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net) provides networking capabilities that makes it possible for people to exchange experiences, manage relevant knowledge, and support learning across countries, sectors, cultures, and languages, and in this way achieve better results.
Endangered Species International. Focusing on species that have the biggest chance to become extinct including those that do not attract the media attention. Their ecosystems as a whole are a crucial component of our conservation strategy. The organization also work hard on saving endangered species found in various types of habitat and serving as protecting umbrella to other endangered species.
Fern keeps track of the EU's involvement in forests and co-ordinates NGO activities at the European level. Fern advocates changes in EU activities to achieve the sustainable management of forests, respect for the rights of forest peoples and greater transparency in EU aid to tropical forest countries. Fern's main campaigning areas are: aid, trade, forest certification, climate change and intergovernmental processes.
The strategy of the Forest Policy and Environment Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is to strive for a broader, more livelihood-oriented approach to the importance of trees and forests, focusing especially on institutional, policy and socio-economic aspects of sustainable forest management and conservation as well as on the interface between forests and other land-uses.
Illegal Logging website is a central point of information on all aspects of the current international debate around the control of illegal logging and forest crimes
International Network on EthnoforestryThe mission of INEFis to promote ethical retrieval, sharing and field application of indigenous knowledge on forest management (ethnoforestry) in order to ensure the equity of knowledge for livelihood security to indigenous people and sustainable forest management across the globe. From here you can also link to an Introduction to Ethnoforestry produced in association with Winrock International that has a very comprehensive annotated bibliography on ethnoforestry.
Participatory Avenues promotes the diffusion of Participatory 3-D Modeling (P3DM) as best practice for merging indigenous technical knowledge and traditional spatial information. The web promotes the culture of knowledge dissemination and acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS). P3DM has a wide range of applications ranging from collaborative research and planning for natural resource management, to dealing with conflict resolution and resource tenure.
PMC -Participatory Management Clearinghouse- is a joint initiative of IUCN (The World Conservation Union), the Bureau of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It is a service that facilitates the dissemination of information concerning participatory management of natural resources (Collaborative Management, Community-Based Management and Indigenous Peoples Management). The PMC links existing networks/institutions to promote a better flow of rich and diverse experience, providing a common space to share lessons learned. The main point of this free service is to facilitate sharing of information, but it also gives different organizations or people a chance to showcase the work that they are currently doing or have completed
People and Plants promotes the sustainable use of plant resources, and the reconciliation of conservation and development, by focusing on the interface between people and the world of plants
The Vitamins and Nutrition Center provides factual and accurate information on vitamins and nutrition, reports on the latest vitamin research and explains just how vitamins prevent disease.
World Forestry Center, a nonprofit organization located in Portland, Oregon, United States. WFI services are designed to meet the needs of forest-product manufacturers, consultants, researchers, brokers, government agencies, and others.