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Information Resources

Gaia Forest Archives

Global Forest Policy: An Electronic Clearinghouse Mechanism

Rainforest Alliance

WWW Virtual Library: Forestry

 

Organizations and Networks

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

European Forest Institute, Finland

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

FAO Forest Resources Division (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO)

Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe (Helsinki Conference)

Rainforest Action Network

United States Forest Service (United States Department of Agriculture)

World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development (WCFSD)

World Timber Network (List of Forest Products Organizations and Associations Worldwide)

Africa

http://www.fanweb.org/
Forest Action Network (FAN)
FAN was established in 1995 as a non-governmental organization to work closely with local communities in utilizing forest resources on a sustainable basis.

http://www.oneworld.org/earthaction/
EarthAction

Save Africa's Last Rainforests

http://www.icfrnet.unp.ac.za/
Institute for Commercial Forestry Research
The mission of the ICFR is "to serve the South African Forestry Industry by undertaking relevant, timely research that has the objective of supplying the commercial timber producers with the information required to optimize the beneficial use of forestry resources in South Africa."

http://www.info.usaid.gov/
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)

http://www.wcs.org/
Wildlife Conservation Society
From the lush lowland forests of the Congo Basin to the mountains of Rwanda, the Wildlife Conservation Society has pioneered research and conservation action on behalf of gorillas for four decades. Today, WCS remains the only organization working with all three gorilla subspecies -- mountain gorillas, Grauer's gorillas, and western lowland gorillas -- throughout the African forests.

BURMA

http://danenet.wicip.org/fbc/freeburma.html
Free Burma Coalition
The Free Burma Coalition (FBC) is an umbrella group of organizations around the world working for freedom and democracy in Burma.

INDONESIA

http://www2.bonet.co.id/dephut/dephut.htm
Ministry of Forestry
Agency for Forestry Research & Development
Indonesian Department of Forestry

Indonesian Forest Product Producers

http://www.sdn.or.id/
Sustainable Development Networking Programme

JAPAN

http://ss.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/
Forest and Forest Products Research Institute
Forestry Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Includes extensive list of forest-related sites in Japan.

http://forester.uf.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english2/
Tokyo University Forests
Features photographs and maps of the regional forests.

MALAYSIA

http://www.frim.gov.my/
Forest Research Institute Malaysia
The mission of the FRIM is to promote the sustainable management and utilization of forest resources by generating knowledge and technology through research, development and application.

Central America

BELIZE

http://www.belizeaudubon.org/index.html
Belize Audubon Society



http://www.belize.org/
Official Country of Belize Home Page
This Belize government/private sector joint effort Internet site is a source of all kinds of information on Belize.

COSTA RICA

http://www.canateca.com/
Cana Teca International, S.A.
Cana Teca's mandate is to plant, maintain, harvest and sell high quality teak in Costa Rica and elsewhere providing international markets with a sustainable source of teak wood and investors a strong, long term, tax free re venue stream.

http://www.cocori.com/library/eco/fundecr.htm
Friends of the Forest
FUNDECOR
FUNDECOR's goal is to guarantee the biodiversity of the existing forest through conservation, development and sustainable use management. We want to reforest all areas currently put to non-sustainable uses.

http://www.inbio.ac.cr/
National Institute of Biodiversity


http://www.interlog.com/~rainfrst/
Rara Avis: a Costa Rican rainforest experience
Bordering Braulio Carrillo National Park and the Zona Protectora La Selva, Rara Avis uses ecotourism to make the rainforest profitable without destroying it, and using publicity to teach others to do the same.

HONDURAS

http://www.infoscandic.se/ecraft/
EcoCraft

http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/ecnc/homepage.html
European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)
ECNC - is a network of nature conservation institutes from all over Europe.





http://www.efi.fi/
European Forest Institute (EFI)

CROATIA

http://hrast.sumfak.hr/
Faculty of Forestry
University of Zagreb
Organization of the Faculty of Forestry
Includes Institutes of Silviculture, Forest Management, Forest Exploitation, Forest Protection and Hunting, Genetics and Dendrology, Organization and Forest Economy, Forest Research, Forestry Education and Work on Experimental Forest Sites

UNITED KINGDOM

http://forestry.bangor.ac.uk/
Forestry and Forest Products
University of Wales, Bangor

http://www.foe.co.uk/
Friends of the Earth-UK
Mahogany is Murder Campaign

http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/
Friends of the Earth-Scotland


http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/OFI/OFI.HTM
Oxford Forestry Institute

http://www.cabi.org/
CAB International
CAB INTERNATIONAL (CABI) is an intergovernmental organisation established in 1928 to provide information, scientific and development services for agriculture, forestry and allied disciplines worldwide. It has 36 member gove rnments currently, and membership is open to any other government wishing to participate.

http://www.cgiar.org/cifor/
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
CIFOR was established under the CGIAR system in response to global concerns about the social, environmental and economic consequences of loss and degradation of forests.

http://www.rcfa-cfan.org/english/info.tree.html
CIDA Forestry Advisers Network (CFAN)
The purpose of this site is to stimulate thought on international forestry issues and to provide opportunity for Internet users to discover what development initiatives CIDA has taken to meet the challenges facing the world's forests.

Convention on Biological Diversity
Clearing-House-Mechanism

http://www.itto.or.jp/newsletter/v8n1/10.html
International Registration of Forests
A presentation on the establishment of an international scheme that would enable the monitoring of sustainable management at the forest level, as opposed to the national level.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/index.jsp
Forestry Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

GOVERNMENT DONOR AGENCIES AND RELATED GROUPS

http://www.gtz.de/
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
http://www.nri.org/
Natural Resources Institute
http://www.info.usaid.gov/
U.S. Agency for International Development

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/forestry/forest.html
International Forest Policy ("Linkages")
An electronic clearing-house for information on past and upcoming international meetings related to forest resources.

http://www.itto.or.jp/Index.html
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
The ITTO is the main discussion and decision-making forum on tropical forest management and use. Set up 10 years ago, it groups 25 producing countries and 26 consumer nations.

http://iufro.boku.ac.at/
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO)
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations)

MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS AND OTHER DONORS

http://www.adb.org/
Asian Development Bank
http://www.gefweb.org/
Global Environment Facility
http://www.iadb.org/
Inter-american Development Bank
http://www.imf.org/
International Monetary Fund
http://www.oas.org/
Organization of American States
http://www.worldbank.org
World Bank

http://iisd1.iisd.ca/wcfsd/default.htm
World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development (WCFSD)
Following the Earth Summit in 1992 it was agreed that solutions to forest degradation are likely to be more political than technical. Accordingly, the WCFSD intends to consult with various stakeholder groups seeking to achi eve policy reforms aimed at reconciling economic and environmental objectives for sustainable management of global forests.

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES




http://www.undp.org
United Nations Development Programme
Sustainable Development Networking Programme

http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme
Geneva Executive Center

OTHER GROUPS

http://www.ran.org/ran/
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Forest communities

Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/
APFT is a multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community (DG VIII) which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is be from anthropologists. The project will run for five years, and involve over 30 researchers (senior and trainee) in three major areas: the Carribean (and later possibly South America), central Africa and the southwestern Pacific.

Cultural Survival
http://www.cs.org./
Cultural Survival, founded in 1972, helps indigenous peoples and ethnic groups deal as equals in their relations with national and international societies.

Fourth World Documentation Project
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)
http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/fwdp.html
The FWDP gathers documents from nations and organizations around the world and processes them into electronic text for distribution on the Internet, Peace Net and other computer networks. These documents form an electronic archive of voices and ideas from the Fourth World.

Indigenous Environmental Network
http://www.ienearth.org/
The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.

Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Initiative
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ipcn.html
The objectives of the IPCN are: to contribute to the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources by integrating Indigenous Peoples knowledge, perspectives and practices into programmes and strategies for sustainability undertaken by IUCN, its members and partners; and to promote mutual understanding amongst Indigenous Peoples and other social actors in conservation and natural resource management including governments, regional and international institutions

Innu Nation
http://www.innu.ca/

Native Forest Council
http://www.forestcouncil.org/
The Native Forest Council is a non-profit, tax-exempt organizationformed by a group of business and professional people with no vested interest in the national forests except that of private citizens concerned about the quality of life in America.

AUSTRALIA

http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/intro.asp?IdTopic=7
Australian Conservation Foundation Forest Service
ACF aims to ensure the protection of high conservation value native forests and associated wilderness areas, to ensure forestry operations minimise impacts on forest values, to promote micro economic reform of the wood products industry, and to ensure the transfer of logging to tree crops grown on already cleared farm land.

http://www.erin.gov.au/
Australian Environment On-Line
Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
Department of the Environment, Sports and Territories

http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fpt/wood.html
Australian National University School of Forestry

http://www.csiro.au/
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

http://www.nafi.com.au/
Forestry Australia
National Association of Forest Industries
NAFI is the peak national forest and forest products industries body.

http://www.tpcvic.org.au/
Timber Promotion Council
Technical information about the work of the TPC.

http://www.vicnet.net.au/~woodlink/woodlink.htm
WoodLink
Victorian Woodworkers Association
WoodLink was created to make connections between woodworkers in Australia and the rest of the world, to expand the information available all aspects of woodworking, and to make available to a wider audience information about Australian woodwork and woodworkers.

NEW ZEALAND

http://www.mfe.govt.nz/
Ministry for the Environment

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

http://forests.org/pngforests.html
Papua New Guinea Rainforest Campaign News
GAIA Forest Conservation Archives . . . See also:

South America

BRAZIL

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil.html
Bem-Vindo ao Brasil
The Environment: Brazilian Sites

http://www.oneworld.org/earthaction/
EarthAction

Forest Product Industry Sites
Aracruz Celullose, S.A.

http://www.greenpeace.org/
Greenpeace International
Brazil: Rainforests Under Siege Campaign

ECUADOR

http://www.cloudforest.org/
Cloud Forest Institute
CFI is both a research station for environmental and natural sciences located in the Mindo-Nambillo protected cloud forest of northwestern Ecuador, and a general institution of higher education located in cyberspace. The fa cility will be a model of alternative power resources and an example of sustainable, biointensive organic gardening techniques.