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http://balder.prohosting.com/~starrier/index.htm
AllAfrica Global Media is the leading provider of
African news and information worldwide, through news feeds to institutional and
agency clients and through allAfrica.com. They post more than 700 new stories
daily from more than 100 African media organizations and from their own
award-winning reporters.
http://allafrica.com/
This site covers the conservation and development of the
natural, historic and cultural resources of the Amazon.
www.andainternational.com/
http://fungimap.rbg.vic.gov.au/
Launched by Strybing Arboretum, this is an educational
site filled with interesting images, resources and information.
www.strybing.org/cf
Databases |
American Indian Ethnology Database
This is an electronic database containing food, drug,
dye, fibre and other plants used by native North American peoples (a total of
over 47 000 items); 291 Native American groups and 3 895 species from 243
different plant families are represented.
www.umd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/herb
Biodiversity Rights Legislation (BRL)
GRAIN has just revamped the Biodiversity Rights
Legislation (BRL) section of its Web site. The BRL is a full-text online
database of laws and agreements defining rights over biodiversity in developing
countries.
www.grain.org/br
Gender and Sustainable Development Resource Directory
This database places a focus on resources produced in
the global South. Subjects include Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry,
Environment and Health.
http://xel.stfx.ca/coady-library/intro.htm
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
http://gmr.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/Plantnames/
The PLANTS Database
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized
information about plants and focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts,
hornworts and lichens of the United States and its territories.
http://plants.usda.gov/
Interesting and new publications on forest certification
can be downloaded from the European Forest Institute's Certification Information
System (CIS) site.
www.efi.fi/cis/english/
ForestryUSA.com is a comprehensive source of information
on American forestry and forest products sectors.
www.forestryusa.com
More than 3 500 images of more than 800 insects,
diseases, plants, wildlife and management practices taken by over 150
photographers are now available online.
www.ForestryImages.org/
A joint venture by the US Forest Service and the
University of Georgia, Forestry Images holds nearly 4 500 colour .jpeg images of
forest plants, insects, silvicultural practices, invasive organisms and general
natural scenes.
www.forestryimages.org/
This new Web site contains comprehensive coverage of the
world's scientific literature in forestry and related disciplines - dating back
to 1939. The ForestScience.info database contains more than 600 000 research
summaries, with more than 20 000 new additions each year.
www.forestscience.info
This World Bank site summarizes knowledge and
experience, provides gender statistics and facilitates discussion on gender and
development.
www.worldbank.org/gender/index.htm
www.unep-wcmc.org/reception/glossaryA-E.htm
This site gives a complete listing of every government
Web site (including local governments, embassies, political parties).
www.ih.k12.oh.us/msesol/governments_on_the_web.htm
The art and science of herbal medicines.
www.herbdatanz.com
A source of science-based information on the health
benefits and safety of herbs that contains more than 300 000 scientific
articles.
www.herbs.org
INASP is a cooperative network of partners aiming to
improve worldwide access to information.
www.inasp.info
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NWFP Bibliography FAO NWFP Programme's home page contains an
extensive bibliography, which includes all the publications listed in
previous issues of Non-Wood News. Readers are requested to send any
additional bibliographic listings to the NWFP Programme |
This site is devoted to improving rural, wildland, and
natural resource management by providing useful information, concepts and ideas,
as well as links for students, practitioners and landowners.
www.lastingforests.com/
www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/contents.html
This site includes recent issues of the MPSG newsletter,
Medicinal Plant Conservation.
http://mpsg.org
www.specialforestproducts.com/
An online archive of in-depth interviews with mountain
people around the world.
www.mountainvoices.org
Networks or newsletters |
CEPF E-News
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is a joint
initiative of Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the
Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. A fundamental
goal is to ensure the civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation.
Their free monthly e-newsletter, CEPF E-News, includes the latest details about
CEPF activities and opportunities.
www.cepf.net
Community Forestry Resource Center (CFRC)
The cfc-news listserve highlights events, activities and
resources for individuals and groups interested in independent third-party
certification of family forests and wood.
To subscribe, please send an email to [email protected]. In the body
of the message type: [subscribe cfc-news]. For more information about CFRC,
please visit:www.forestrycenter.org or www.mnforestcertification.org
Herbolaria Mexicana y Mercados verdes herbolario
Herbolaria Mexicana y Mercados verdes herbolario son los boletines electrónicos de la Red Mexicana de Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas (REDMEXPLAM) y de la Subred Iberoamericana para el Comercio Justo de Plantas Medicinales y sus derivados (RICOPLAM-RIPROFITO). Los dos boletines llegan actualmente a más de 2 000 suscriptores entre América Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos.
Para recibir ambos los boletines es necesario enviar los datos personales completos así como los de la empresa, organización o institución para la que se trabaja a cualquiera de las siguientes direcciones electrónicas: [email protected];
[email protected]
NWFP North America initiative
An initiative is under way in North America to get
non-timber forest products more integrated into forest research and management
institutions. A NTFP listserve has been started to serve as a forum to exchange
information concerning these products. To join, please visit:
www.ulern.on.ca
Phytomedica Network
The PHYTOMEDICA forum is an interactive e-mail discussion and learning process on the sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants, the development of phytomedicines and other related natural products. Phytomedica now has 800 members (French- and English-speaking groups combined) and is managed by Conserve Africa Foundation.
To join, please send a blank e-mail to:
For more information, please contact:
RIL-Afrique
RIL-Afrique-L est un bulletin électronique sur les
pratiques d'exploitation forestière à faible impact et durable en Afrique. Il
est l'expression d'un réseau de communications, d'échanges et de discussions
entre les différents acteurs du secteur forestier (professionnels ou non) et il
s'adresse plus particulièrement à l'Afrique francophone.
Tous les numéros de
RIL-Afrique-L sont disponibles sur le site Web de la FAO à l'adresse:
www.fao.org/forestry/FOP/FOPH/harvest/RIL-Afrique-L/f-maildig-f.asp
Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter:
Laura Russo: [email protected]
Sacred Earth Newsletter
The Sacred Earth Newletter is a free Ezine which aims at a six-weekly publication cycle. It contains articles, news and reviews on all things herbal and/or ethnobotanical.
To subscribe, please send an e-mail to:
www.sacredearth.com/Ezine/archiveindex.htm)
www.sacredearth.com
The North Island NTFP Demonstration Project Newsletters
www.island.net/~ntfp/pages/newsletters.html
Pankaj Oudhia works on medicinal herbs and insects in
India and regularly writes articles based on ethnobotanical surveys. His many
articles can be found on his Web site.
http://botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/poudhia_index.html
• What's a Tree Done for You Lately? http://wood.orst.edu/teachers.htm
• Project
Learning Tree
www.plt.org
• The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension lists
more than 5 000 products made from wood.
http://forestry2.ca.uky.edu/conners/WoodUses.pdf
SciDevNet is a new Web site devoted to news and
information on issues in science and technology relevant to developing
countries. It is sponsored by Nature and Science, in association with the Third
World Academy of Sciences, and carries a special section on intellectual
property issues.
www.scidev.net/dossiers/dossier.asp?xc=A005
Africa's first online science magazine. Ii includes a
section on medicinal plants and indigenous knowledge.
www.scienceinafrica.co.za
SDO is a Web portal on sustainable development, updated
weekly with ±1 700 Web sites and currently less than 1 percent of broken links.
It is continually updated and maintained and each Web site listed has been
visited by one of SDO's researchers. If you have a web site that you would like
to be listed, please submit it to SDO and one of their researchers will follow
it up. In addition, there are 410 courses listed on SDO - 64 are courses that
can be undertaken online at your own pace and convenience.
E-mail: [email protected]
The United States Development Agency (USDA), in
cooperation with the National Association of Resource Conservation and
Development Councils, has just launched an interactive Web site that will
collect and make available Success Stories of Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry
and Community Development activities and projects, both domestic and
international (with US partnerships).
www.rcdsuccess.com/
http://alternative-herbal-medicine.net/Ginseng/ginseng.htm
This is an annotated collection of guidelines, standards
and regulations for trade in non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and botanicals.
www.rainforest-alliance.org/news/archives/news/news44.html
This site includes hotlines to 6 287 universities in 169
countries. Universities not included in the listing can be added.
http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/
Wildcanada.net is pioneering innovative ways to protect
Canada's wildlands and wildlife.
www.wildcanada.net/new_site/
www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/home.asp