- A U D U
B O N
- 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.
- The Arbor Day
Foundation
- The National Arbor Day Foundation is involved in
much more than just Arbor Day celebrations around
the world. Its mission is to help promote tree
care and conservation and to educate people on
tree issues.
- EMagazine
- A non-profit "clearinghouse" for
information on environmental issues.
- Brazilian
Rainforests: An action toolkit from EARTHACTION
- This page is part of Earth
Action. It discusses Demarcation(the return
of land to the native Brazilians).
- The Earth
Channel(TM)
- Mission:
- To consciously share entertainment,
information and technology with our
members.
- To merge technology and humanity,
commerce and charity. .
- To help preserve and protect the earth,
its freedom, and the concept of global
community. Webstock will provide an
ongoing showcase of ideas from those who
nurture and protect the planet and its
inhabitants.
- Earth
First!
- Earth First! is a movement dedicated to a front
line, direct-action approach to protecting
wilderness.
- Earthwatch
- EARTHWATCH, a nonprofit membership organization
founded in 1972, is one of the world's largest
private sponsors of scientific field research
projects. Our mission is to improve human
understanding of the planet, the diversity of its
inhabitants, and the processes that affect the
quality of life on Earth.
- The Environmental
Defense Fund
- EDF has become a leading advocate of economic
incentives as a new approach to solving
environmental problems.
- Expeditions
to help the Rainforest
- This page explores ecology of Rainforests and
coral reefs, around the world. It is part of the EarthWatch
Organization.
- EcoNet
- EcoNet: a decade of support for ecological
sustainability and environmental justice. A
member of IGC (Institute for Global
Communications), along with PeaceNet,
ConflictNet, LaborNet and WomensNet.
- EE-Link
- EE-LINK's mission is to spread information and
ideas that will help educators explore the
environment and investigate current issues with
students.
- Environment
NSW
- The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC for
short) is based in Sydney, Australia. It is a
concerted effort to ensure that the NSW
government sticks to its election promises and
its commitments under the National Forest Policy
Statement to protect the best of our remaining
native forests.
- Evergreen
Foundation's Ecology Resource Network:
- Dedicated to preserving and restoring natural
areas in the urban environment through education
and community action projects, making Canadian
schools and communities healthier places to live,
learn, work and play...
- Fairfax
Releaf Home Page
- An organization of volunteers who
plant and preserve trees, improve community
appearance, and restore habitat on public and
commons lands in Northern Virginia. Fairfax
Releaf serves as a practical laboratory for
assessing techniques to lessen the impact of
development on the environment in one of the most
rapidly changing forest/urban
interface areas in the country.
- Friends
of the Earth Home Page
- The largest international network of
environmental groups in the world, represented in
52 countries. One of the leading environmental
pressure groups in the UK. A unique network of
campaigning local groups, working in 250
communities in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland.
- GAIA
Forest Conservation Archive
- Information on Worldwide Rainforest and Forest
Conservation, Indigenous Issues and Ecological
Activism Opportunities.
- Global
Response - A Letter Writing Network
- GLOBAL RESPONSE is an international
letter-writing network of dedicated environmental
activists who are "on-call" to
communicate public concern on matters of
environmental emergency.
- Good
Green Fun!- Children's Music and Rainforest
Ecology
- This WWW page explores tropical and temperate
forests of the world through the internet and the
music of Good Green Fun!, winner of a 1995
Parents' Choice Gold Award.
- Green
Party
- The Green program is guided by this global
vision, expressed in ten interconnected Key
Values, the basis of Green politics in the United
States: ecological wisdom, social justice,
democracy, non-violence, decentralization,
community-based economics, feminism, respect for
diversity, personal and global responsibility
- Greenpeace
International
- An independent, campaigning organization which
uses non-violent, creative confrontation to
expose global environmental problems, and to
force the solutions which are essential to a
green and peaceful future.
- League of
Conservation Voters
- The political arm of the environmental
movement...online! Each year the League publishes
the National Environmental Scorecard, which
grades each Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives and Senate on the basis of votes
cast in Congress affecting the environment.
- Life
in the Redwoods
- All about RedWood Trees.
- NASA
Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Forest
Inventory Project
- The Humid Tropical Forest Project is a
collaboration between the Institute for the Study
of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of
New Hampshire, The Department of Geography at the
University of Maryland, and the Goddard Space
Flight Center. It is a part of the NASA's Mission
to Planet Earth (MPTE) program and the Earth
Observation System Data and Information System
(EOS-DIS). Most of the funding comes from NASA,
with additional support from the Environmental
Protection Agency and the USGS/National Mapping
Division.
- The Nature
Conservancy
- TNC is a national non-profit organization,
involved in land conservation and wildlife
issues.
- Organizations
that Plant Trees
- A list of organizations that plant trees with the
consciousness of healing and sustaining our
planet. Each is a non-profit organization with
its own mission and objectives.
- PLANT-IT
2000 HOME PAGE
- Plant-It 2000 is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3)
foundation dedicated to properly planting,
maintaining and protecting as many indigenous
trees as possible worldwide.
- Rainforests
- This is a publication from the Forest Aliance. It
explains the difference between tropical and
temperate rainforests. It also explains the
benefits of rainforests, and how and why they are
being destroyed.
- Rainforest
Action Network
- Rainforest Action Network works to protect the
Earth's rainforests and support the rights of
their inhabitants through education, grassroots
organizing, and non-violent direct action.
- Rainforest
Conservation Fund
- The Rainforest Conservation Fund is an
all-volunteer non-profit organization that is
dedicated to preserving the world'stropical
forests. Our main project is the
Tamshiyacu-TahuahoCommunity Reserve (RCTT) in the
Peruvian Amazon.
- The
Sierra Club of British Columbia Rainforest Alert
Network
- This site uses pictures to allow you to explore
the beauty of several rainforest areas and to
witness the clearcuts currently occuring there.
- Sierra Club
- The Sierra Club is a non-profit organization that
promotes conservation of the natural environment
by influencing public policy decisions.
- Sonoma
County Conservation Action
- Sonoma County Conservation Action (SCCA) is the
nonpartisan political arm of the local
environmental movement. SCCA works to increase
participation by ordinary citizens so that local
government will become more accountable to the
environmental values that most Sonoma County
residents share.
- Southeast
Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC)
- This sites contains Southeast Alaska Conservation
Council's (SEACC) information about Tongass
National Forest. The Tongass National Forest is
not only the largest National Forest, it is one
of the most important: it is the best example of
temperate coastal rainforest remaining. This
forest is threatened by radically increased
pressures for clearcutting.
- TREES!
- Once a seedling idea, TREES! has taken hold and
given root to nearly two hundred thousand trees
planted in Kent County, Michigan. Our mission is
to encourage planting and protection of trees in
Kent County and throughout the world.
- Tree Canada
Foundation
- The Tree Canada Foundation (TCF) exists to
provide leadership and promote public awareness,
education and community action in the planting
and care of urban and rural trees throughout
Canada.
- Trees
for Life Canada
- International Co-operation of Children (I.C.O.C)
for Trees for Life Canada Inc. is a non-profit,
charitable organization dedicated to promoting
environmental education to children. It is
associated with Trees for Life USA.
- Trees
for Life Great Britain
- Trees for Life is a conservation charity
dedicated to the regeneration and restoration of
the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of
Scotland, Great Britain.
- Trees
for Life Australia
- South Australia's major community-based
revegetation group, Trees For Life has more than
10,000 members. It is the world's largest branch
of the International Tree Foundation, established
in 1924 by Richard St Barbe Baker.
- The Trust
for Public Land Home Page
- The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national,
nonprofit land conservation organization that
conserves land for people to enjoy as parks,
gardens, natural areas and open space.
- The
Wilderness Society
- Conservation group dedicated to preserving
America's public lands.
- The
World's Rainforests
- This is a publication of The National Association
of Forest Industries. It explains how much of the
world is covered by rainforests and where these
forests are located.
- The WWF
Global Network
- WWF's ultimate goal is to stop, and eventually
reverse, the accelerating degradation of our
planet's natural environment, and to help build a
future in which humans live in harmony with
nature. WWF is known as the World Wildlife Fund
in the USA and Canada. This site contains a lot
of WWF's links and environmental links.
- WWF's
Forest For Life Program
- WWF's research suggests that the international
timber trade is now the primary cause of forest
degradation and loss in those forests that
contain the highest levels of biodiversity.
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