The Global Diversity Foundation The Global Diversity Foundation documents, monitors and promotes agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world, particularly through training and research.
Canadian Biodiversity Biological diversity: theory, patterns, ecological zones, species distributions, conservation issues, and legislation, with an emphasis on Canada. Bilingual: english/français.
What is Biodiversity? An introduction to meanings associated with the term biodiversity.
Biodiversity Web Personally maintained website with information and links about several aspects of biodiversity: biological, ecological, physical, chemical, social (e.g., population growth), economical and juridical. Some links in Dutch language or of particular relevance to Netherlands.
Biodiversity Economics Explores the economic dimensions of the global biodiversity agenda as reflected in the work of IUCN and the various biodiversity conventions, notably the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Resources for the Future Library: Biodiversity Research papers (PDF files) and project summaries related to economic and policy aspects of biodiversity protection. Topics include ecosystem valuation, endangered species laws, and habitat conservation.
Biodiversity Series Full text online of UNEP-WCMC series of project results.
Industrial Reliance on Biodiversity Provides an overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. (FTP site).
Fauna and Flora International Supports international conservation activities. Documents on methodology, working with NGOs, governments, communities; news, publications, photo gallery.
Biodiversity Resource Center A branch library of the California Academy of Sciences specializing in information on biodiversity. Bibiographies, links to news and educator resources.
Species 2000 Project to provide indexing and links for all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.
All Species Foundation A non-profit organization with the goal of recording a complete inventory of all species on Earth within 25 years.
World Atlas of Biodiversity Interactive maps of biodiversity and human impacts from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Biodiversity Fact Sheet What is biodiversity, what threatens it, why is it important, and what are ecologists doing to better understand it? From Ecological Society of America. [PDF file]
Natural Resources and Biodiversity Background papers from the World Resources Institute on social and political dimensions of environmental policy-making.
