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    Wildlife Conservation

  • African Wildlife Foundation - AWF works to protect Africa's wildlife through the conservatin of habitats and ecosystems.

  • Wildlife Conservation Society - WCS saves wildlife and wild lands through science, conservation, education, and the establishment of a worldwide system of urban wildlife parks.

  • Bushmeat Crisis Task Force - The BCTF is a consortium of conservation organizations and scientists dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations threatened by commercial hunting of wildlife for sale as meat.

  • Ape Alliance - The Ape Alliance is an international coalition of organisations and individuals, working for the conservation and welfare of apes.

    • Research & Networks

  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre - WCMC, part of the UN's Environment Programme, evaluates and highlighta the many values of biodiversity and seeks to put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making.

  • Overseas Development Institute - The think tank ODI focuses on international development and humanitarian issues, with the mission of reducing poverty in developing countries.

  • International Institute for Environment and Development - IIED undertakes research around the world, with programmes on climate change, governance, natural resources and markets.

  • CIFOR - The Center for International Forestry Research is an international institute which conducts research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries.

  • World Resources Institute - WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

  • Worldwatch Institute - This institute provides interdisciplinary research on key environmental, social and economic trends.

  • European Tropical Forest Research Network - ETFRN is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-)tropical forest research.

  • Global Forest Watch - GFW provide statistics about forest cover around the world.

    • Logging & Forest Certification

  • Tropical Forest Trust - TFT works to conserve threatened tropical forests through faciliating their sustainable management.

  • Tropical Forest Trust - TFT works to conserve threatened tropical forests through faciliating their sustainable management.

  • PEFC - The PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) promotes sustainable forest management through independent third party forest certification.

  • Global Timber - This website provides information and statistics on the global trade in wood-based products, especially that from Africa and East Asia.

  • Illegal Logging Info - This website provides background information on the key issues in the illegal logging debate, together with news stories, information on events, key documents and links to other relevant websites.

  • SGS - SGS provides forestry certification programmes and monitoring services.

  • Forest Stewardship Council - FSC is an international, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting responsible management of the world's forests.

    • International Agencies & Donors

  • European Union - The EU supports a wide range of forest-related activities.

  • Department for International Development - The Department for International Development is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.

  • United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP aims to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

  • World Bank - The World Bank is a major source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.

  • United Nations Forum on Forests - The UNFF is an intergovernmental policy forum to promote the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests and strengthen long-term political commitment to this end.

    • Forests Conservation & Campaigning Organisations

  • Earthsight - Earthsight specialises in using in-depth research, investigations, undercover work and filming to document environmental and social crime and injustice.

  • Resource Extraction Monitoring - REM is an organisation specialised in the independent monitoring of law enforcement and natural resources extraction.

  • Centre pour l’Environnement et le Developpement - CED is a Cameroonian organisation, working to reduce poverty while protecting the environment.

  • Sustainable Development Institute - SDI focuses on natural resources management and governance issues in Liberia. It works to transform the decision-making processes related to natural resources management and to promote equity in the sharing of benefits dervied from their exploitation.

  • Fauna and Flora International - FFI acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs.

  • Conservation International - CI's mission is to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.

  • Environmental Investigation Agency - EIA is an international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.

  • Friends of the Earth - Challenging the current model of economic and corporate globalization, FoE promotes solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

  • Greenpeace - Greenpeace works to defend the natural world and promote peace. Its forests campaign aims to end illegal and destructive logging, and to protect the rights of the indigenous peoples and species that rely on them.

  • Worldwide Fund for Nature - WWF is working to conserve endangered species, protect threatened habitats and address global threats, including climate change. Forests are a key focus for its conservation work - WWF campaigns for their protection and responsible management and seeks to address the consumption issues that threaten forests.

  • Rainforest Concern - Rainforest Concern was established to protect threatened natural habitats, particularly rainforests and the biodiversity they contain, together with the indigenous people who still depend on them for their survival.

  • Global Witness - Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.

  • Rainforest Action Network - Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

  • World Rainforest Movement - The World Rainforest Movement is an international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests. <p>
  • FERN - FERN aims to achieve environmental and social justice, focusing on forests and forest peoples’ rights in the policies and practices of the European Union.

    • Forests & Livelihoods

  • Forest Action Nepal - Forest Action provides support to forest dependent communities, to enable them to take control and play an active role in the management of forests and natural resources.

  • Bruno Manser Fonds - BMF is an environmental and human rights organization, working to support the Penan people in sarawak, Malaysia as well as other indigenous peoples in their struggle to protect tropical rainforests from destruction.

  • Forests Peoples Programme - Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) works with forest peoples around the world to help them secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation is best achieved on their lands.

  • Borneo Resources Institute - The Borneo Resouces Institute (BRIMAS) works at the grass roots level in Sarawak, helping indigenous communities to defend their rights, and promotes community-based sustainable resource management and conservation.

  • Borneo Project - The Borneo Project has been working with indeigenous communities since 1991 in their struggles for human rights, forest protection and sustainable community development.

  • Rainforest Foundation - The Rainforest Foundation supports indigenous people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their rights.