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    Training in Monitoring

  • Resource Extraction Monitoring - An organisation specialising in the independent monitoring of law enforcement and natural resources extraction.

    • Training and capacity building

  • Eathwatch - Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future.

  • Tropical Biology Association - The Tropical Biology Association is working in partnership with African institutions to build expertise in biodiversity conservation and research.

    • Research

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

    • People and Forests

  • Forest Action Nepal - ForestAction is an NGO governed by Nepali citizens.

  • WWF Congo Basin - The WWF is involved in several projects in the Congo Basin, including curtailing the bushmeat trade, researching Ebola outbreaks among gorillas, and promoting community based ecotourism.

  • Sarawak Forests - Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is a grassroots, community non-governmental organisation involved in environment and development issues, based in Malaysia.

  • Bureau for Regional Outreach and Campaigns - BROC is a regional organisation for activists and advocacy, and is dedicated to increasing awareness of environmental protection and sustainable resource use.

  • Friends of the Siberian Forests - Friends of the Siberian Forests (FSF) is regional non-governmental organization (NGO) with the central office in Krasnoyarsk (Central Siberia, Russia).

  • All About Russian Forests - This site is about Russian forests, their conservation and sustainable usage. They provide basic information about Russian forests and forestry.

  • Borneo Resources Institute - The Borneo Resouces Institute (BRIMAS) is an indigenous non-profit organisation working at the grass roots level in Sarawak, helping indigenous communities attain full legal status.

  • Borneo Project - The Borneo Project was established in 1991 to assist diverse tribal groups on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo in their struggles for human rights, rainforest 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.

  • Forests Peoples Programme - Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best.

  • Amazon Watch - Amazon Watch works to defend the environment and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.

    • Partner NGOs

  • CENADEP - Centre National d'Appui au Developpement et a la Participation Populaire are an NGO based in the DRC, and are a partner in our Congo Brazzaville project.

  • Resource Extraction Monitoring - REM specialises in the independent monitoring of natural resource extraction, and they are our partners in our Congo Brazzaville project.

  • Centre pour l’Environnement et le Developpement - CED is a Cameroon based NGO, whose mission is to fight poverty whilst protecting the environment. They are one of our partners in our project based in Congo Brazzaville.

  • Pole Institute - The Pole Institute is an Intercultural institute working in the Great Lakes area.

  • Pactworld - Pact's mission is to help build strong communities globally that provide people with an opportunity to earn a dignified living, raise healthy families, and participate in democratic life.

  • Inica - The Initiative for Central Africa (INICA) is a platform for discussion and action around people and groups active in cross-border initiatives in Central Africa.

    • International policy FLEGT

  • 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.

    • International Agencies and Donors

  • EU - The European Union's main website.

  • DFID - 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.

    • Illegal Logging

  • Illegal Logging Info - 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.

    • GPS and GIS

  • ESRI - ESRI designs and develops geographic information system (GIS) technology.

  • Garmin - Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) group of companies that designs, manufactures, and markets navigation and communications equipment for the aviation and consumer markets.

    • General environmental

  • EcoEarth.Info - An Environment Portal - with Internet search, biocentric commentary, social network & constant news and link tracking - dedicated to achieving global environmental sustainability.

  • Zero Your Carbon - Offers steps to reduce your carbon footprint.

  • Catalog Printing - How you can help reduce paper wastage associated with catalog printing.

  • Modern Furniture - Tips on eco-friendly furniture design.

  • Save Phoenix - An environmental organisation with the goal of reducing air pollution in the United States, Phoenix in particular.

  • Sustainable Development Institute, Liberia - The SDI focuses on natural resources management and governance issues and its works are primarily directed at transforming the decision-making processes relative to natural resources management and promoting equity in the sharing of benefits derived from resource exploitation.

  • Environmental Sustainability Portal - Environmental Portal and Search Engine.

  • 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 - Providing interdisciplinary research on key environmental, social, and economic trends.

  • United Nations Environment Programme - 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.

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

  • Wildlife Conservation Society - Saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks.

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

  • Greenpeace - Works on international environmental issues.

  • WWF - Works on conserving endangered species, protects threatened habitats and addresses global threats.

    • Forests and Logging Issues

  • Rainforest Portal - The Rainforest Portal is an Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed rainforest conservation news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities.

  • SGS - Forestry certification programmes and monitoring services

  • Brainforest - Works for sustainable logging in the Congo Basin.

  • 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.

  • Bruno Manser Fonds - BMF is an environmental and human rights organization with its headquarters in Basel / Switzerland. Its aim is to support the Penan people in Sarawak (East Malaysia) as well as other indigenous peoples in their struggle to protect tropical rainforests from destruction.

  • Forest Forum - The Forum is open to all British based governmental, NGO, public and private organisations, companies and individuals with an interest in the sustainable utilisation and conservation of tropical 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 Forest Watch - GFW provide statistics about forest cover around the world.

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

  • 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.
  • WWF Forests of New Guinea Programme - A large initiative which works from field to policy level in forest, land-use and development planning; responsible forest management; and protected areas.

  • United Nations Environment Programme - The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre evaluates and highlights the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making.

  • 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.

  • Forest Conservation Portal - The Forest Conservation Portal works to end deforestation, preserve primary and old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably manage other forests, and to commence the age of ecological restoration.

  • 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.

  • Forests Peoples Programme - The Forest Peoples Programme work with forest peoples in South America, Central Africa, South and South East Asia, and Central Siberia to help these communities 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.

  • 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.

    • Forests

  • Deciduous Forest - Deciduous Forest is an informative website dedicated to the survival of the world's forests.

    • Corporates and ethical investment

  • The Green Providers Directory - Makes searching for green goods and services quick, easy and informative.

  • World Bank - A vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.

  • New Economics Foundation - NEF works on economic, social and environmental issues through a mixture of practical pilot projects and tools for change, in-depth research, campaigning, policy discussion, and raising awareness through the media and publications.

  • International Corporate Sustainability Reporting - International site dedicated to Corporate Sustainability / CSR and environmental reporting.

  • Ethical Investment Research Services - EIRIS is a provider of independent research into the social, environmental and ethical performance of companies.

  • CorpWatch - Investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.

    • Bushmeat

  • 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.