Botany Web Links
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Internet Directory for Botany: Conservation, Threatened Plants
The Internet Directory for Botany is a massive collection of links to Internet
sites around the world. The conservation and threatened plants pages include
many global conservation organizations as well as national organizations and
sites, grouped nationally.
Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
CITES is a program of the United Nations which lists threatened and endangered
species and requires permits for international trade. The Convention is widely
viewed as a conservation program, but most of its activities are in the form of
monitoring and regulating rather than outright banning of trade. Only those
species most at risk are banned from international trade, and the designation of
particular species as being Endangered can be strongly influenced by politics.
Fauna & Flora International
Flora and Fauna International (FFI) carries out conservation programs for
animals and plants around the world. They publish Oryx, a very good journal on
endangered species.
Flowerbase
A database of 7000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants.
IUCN, The World
Conservation Union
IUCN is the world's largest conservation organization, consisting of many
different organizations working together for conservation.
IUCN
Species Survival Commission (SSC)
The SSC is the largest of the IUCN's commission and is by far the most active.
Specialist groups within the SSC include plants and conservation breeding.
United Nations
Environment Programme, UNEP
UNEP administers many conservation programs around the world.
WCMC,
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, England is a joint
project of IUCN, WWF and others to assemble authoritative data on the state of
conservation around the world. The WCMC web site includes searchable data bases
and profiles of conservation programs in many countries.
WWF
Global Network
The Web Site of the World Wide Fund for Nature includes many useful features
such as searchable directories of projects and experts.
The Canadian Nature
Federation Home Page
The Canadian Nature Federation works on conservation and education about
Canadian endangered species and habitats.
Endangered Species in Canada
Environment Canada maintains this site on Endangered Species.
The Evergreen
Foundation
The Evergreen Foundation, based in Toronto, is a non-profit organization that
supports local conservation activities.
Center
for Plant Conservation
The Center for Plant Conservation is located at Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. CPC administers a
national program for protecting endangered plants in the USA.
University of Guelph Fungi Page
It has some really awesome fungi shots, with a good deal of ecological info as
well, from my mycology prof at Guelph. There's also info on his just published
field guide to the fungi of Eastern Canada. Enjoy!
