NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems. [Information of the supplier]
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest and most experienced nature protection organisations in the world and is active in more than 100 countries. It is supported, worldwide, by more than five million sponsors. In the global network of WWF, 59 national sections, programme offices, and partner organisations co-operate. In 2005, about 4400 co-workers throughout the world, carried out 2000 projects for the conservation of biological diversity. For this, WWF invested altogether about 362 million Euros. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union) is one of the oldest and largest environment associations in Germany. The association encompasses about 450,000 members and sponsors, who commit themselves to the conservation of threatened habitats, flora and fauna, to climate protection and energy policy. NABU`s main objectives are the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, the promotion of sustainability in agriculture, forest management and water supply and distribution, as well as to enhance the significance of nature conservation in our society. ... [Information of the supplier]
MAP is dedicated to reversing the degradation of mangrove forest ecosystems worldwide. Its central tenet is to promote the rights of local coastal peoples, including fishers and farmers, in the sustainable management of coastal environs. MAP provides four essential services to grassroots associations and other proponents of mangrove conservation: 1) It coordinates a unique international NGO network and information clearinghouse on mangrove forests.; 2) It promotes public awareness of mangrove forest issues; 3) It develops technical and financial support for NGO projects; and 4) MAP helps publicize within the developed nations the basic needs and struggles of Third World coastal fishing and farming communities affected by the consumer demands of the wealthy nations. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ was established in 1991 and has about 900 employees in Leipzig, Halle/S. and Magdeburg. They study the complex interactions between humans and the environment in cultivated and damaged landscapes. The scientists develop concepts and processes to help secure the natural foundations of human life for future generations. ... [Information of the supplier]
The mission of the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. [BioFinder]
The National Biodiversity Network (NBN) is a new and innovative way of sharing wildlife information in the UK and is building tools to make this information accessible in a digitised and exchangeable form. By providing easy access to the information people need about wildlife, wise and informed decisions can be made to ensure our natural environment is diverse, rich and sustainable now and for future generations. ... [Information of the supplier]
The World Database on Protected Areas is the result of a collaboration between UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). It is compiled and managed with the support of a wide range of national and international organizations, including protected area agencies in most countries. (...) The WDPA allows you to search protected areas data by site name, country, and international programme or convention. ... [Information of the supplier]
Inside the realisation of scientific project Biological Database and GIS (no. 1-08-330), financed by the Ministry of Science of Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Information Service for Biodiversity is done. In realisation are involved the biologists from the Division of Biology (Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb), from the Croatian Natural History Museum, the colleagues from the University Computing Centre and our worth students of biology. Service for Biodiversity contains the information about biological specificity of Croatia and Croatian flora and fauna. Also the basic information about scientific project (field of biology) in Croatia, scientific institutions and biological journals are available. Service is still under development. The lot of materials are written only in one language (croatian or english), and only few exist in both languages. We will try to resolve this insufficiency as soon as possible. English home page is connected only with relatively small number of documents. For other material we suggest you to visit Croatian version of this Service. ... [Information of the supplier]
NatureServe Explorer provides conservation status, taxonomy, distribution, and life history information for more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities and systems in the United States and Canada. The data available through NatureServe Explorer represent a "snapshot" of the U.S. and Canadian data managed in the NatureServe Central Databases. ... [Information of the supplier]
