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| Highlights of an exhibition recreating a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest. Amber is a form of tree resin - an organic substance whose structure has changed very little over time - and the reconstruction derives from direct evidence provided by the amber fossils or inferred on the basis of plant-feeding forms of insects. | |
| A survey project documenting the diversity, distribution, and ecology of agarics and boletes (mushrooms) and other macrofungi associated with neotropical oak forests. Includes alphabetical lists by taxa and family, a macrofunghi database, pictures and a map. | ||
| Collection of soil data, precipitation data and mining processes data from the Amazon basin in Brazil. | ||
| Group committed to protecting forests of the Appalachian Mountain region by working to control air pollution in fragile ecosystems and fight proliferation of wood chip mills, strip mining, mountaintop removal, and commercial logging on public lands. Provides reports and articles documenting the decline of the forests, and slides showing the wildlife, fruits, and trees which can be found there. | ||
| Information about the Canadian forest service and natural resources in Canada. | ||
| Provides information on various aspects of forestry, such as global forestry, timber, fire, human resources, and forest health, with access also provided to a variety of publications, software, and databases. Strong US emphasis. | ||
| Information pertaining to the natural resources of the Amazon Rainforest, with a tropical plant database that is searchable by common name, botanical name, or ailment. Information is then given on use of substances and remedies, together with an extensive image gallery, and details of environmental issues relating to the Rainforest, such as its destruction and preservation. | ||
| Proceedings of a 1993 conference held by Peeblesshire Environment Concern discussing the restoration of Borders woodland. Scottish woodlands are considered in a global context along with diversity of bird life and land management. The potential for restoration is highlighted and the way forward is outlined. | ||
| Documents discussing forest protection efforts and rain forest conservation movements. | ||
| Non profit organisation using science, economics, policy and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in rain forests and other endangered ecosystems. | ||
| Index to vegetation and plant distribution maps worldwide, organised by geographical region. Maps of the most of the world's forests are included. | ||
| Offers original articles and features about the environment, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include acid rain, Asia, climate change, desertification, endangered species, environmental economics, environmental philosophy, forestry, mining, organic farming and gardening, national parks and camping, sustainable development, and wetlands. | ||
| Information about an interdisciplinary experiment to use satellite data to monitor the northern boreal forests of Canada. Offers results of findings, and data covering airborne fluxes and meteorology, hydrology, terrestrial ecology and trace gas biogeochemistry. | ||
| Guide to the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. Considers the structure, characteristic growth forms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation, and major soil order(s). Also covers common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desert scrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes. | ||
| Executive summary from the report Out of the Woods: Reducing Wood Consumption to Save the World's Forests A Plan of Action for the UK, with some information about how people in the UK can reduce their use of timber and paper. | ||
| A tree ring is a layer of wood cells produced by a tree or shrub in one year. This set of illustrated documents outlines the principles of dendrochronology, with further sections on resources, links, software, references, supplies and photo gallery about tree ring research. | ||
| Bibliography of resources on the environmental history of the Caribbean, the Andes, the Amazon and Brazil. Features more than 300 references, some available online, including articles, books, videos and web pages in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Both classic and recent works are cited and are classified by bio geographic region. | ||
| The Living Earth Foundation is an international organisation which carries out environmental education. Its database includes an introduction to rainforests, the different types of rainforests and where they grow, the plants and animals that can be found there, and forest regeneration and productivity. It also includes papers on the problems faced by indigenous forest dwellers. | ||
| A not for-profit consortium of universities and research institutions in the United States and Latin America dedicated to providing leadership in education, research, and the wise use of natural resources in the tropics. | ||
| Rainforest Action Network, founded in 1985, works to protect the Earth's rain forests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non violent direct action. Includes world rain forest movement contacts by region, selected book reviews and information about campaigns such as Amazon protection and wood reduction. | ||
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