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African Conservation Telegraph is a thrice-yearly newsletter published free of charge by the Africa section of the US Society for Conservation Biology. The newsletter aims to provide news and information on conservation science in Africa.
Aliens is the newsletter of the Invasive Species Group of the World Conservation Union. An associated email listserver is dedicated to alien invasive species, with a focus on those that threaten biodiversity.
This award-winning website promotes the hotspots concept through the protection of 25 areas of the world that contain the largest number of species under the greatest threat. A colourful site that allows browsers to discover species that are threatened in different hotspots arond the world; compare the state of different hotspots and find out what is being done to conserve them by Conservation International, a US-based group that publishes the site and is doing most to publicise - and lobby - for more hotspots to be protected.
CABI is a not-for-profit, intergovernmental organisation specialising in agricultural and environmental research, publishing and communication. With over 40 different member countries, its scientific projects include finding ways to lower production costs while using ecological practices. CABI studies environmental impacts of invasive species and pests, and searches for natural ways of controlling them. CABI also finds solutions to agricultural problems caused by climate change, provides microbial services and advises on trade policy.
Conservation in Practice is a quarterly magazine published by the US Society for Conservation Biology, aimed at researchers and practitioners who need high quality information written in an accessible way. It is a subscription publication, although a selection of articles are freely available. The magazine contains news, features, opinions and analysis of contemporary themes in biodiversity conservation, with an emphasis on practical conservation.
Earth Trends is a free online information service produced by the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, and is based on their annual World Resources Report. It is packed full of easily accessible information including hundreds of maps, country profiles, data tables and feature articles analysing all major current environmental trends - including biodiversity and protected areas. Earth Trends is based on existing data sources including those of the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme and the World Conservation Union.
EarthWire/Africa provides a free daily overview of environmental news from 14 countries in southern Africa. The site reviews more than 40 newspapers for environment-related news stories. Press releases and news from research organisations, the public sector, and environmental organisations are also included.
Since 1995, ENN been involved as a multi-faceted web production on environmental issues, including climate change and biodiversity. ENN operates mainly as a freely available information source rather than advocacy website, primarily focusing on environmental news but also including live chats, interactive quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio and video.
The GBIF is an intergovernmental organisation committed to making information on the world’s biodiversity freely available on the Internet. It hosts an online data portal providing free access to scientific records on plants, animals and microbes, including 12 million records on biological specimens. The data are provided by natural history museums, botanic gardens and herbaria as well as conservation organisations.
The Concept of OISAT Project is to provide a platform for information dissemination and information sharing. Additionally, it aims at building a network of organisations and individuals to further improve the value of OISAT and to support the use of information offered via OISAT in the field. OISAT Offers easy to read web-based information, relevant for small scale farmers in the tropics on how to produce key crops using affordable preventive and curative non-chemical crop and pest management practices in a way that prevent pests and diseases by using non-chemical pest control measures.
The Peat-Portal housed by the Global Environment Centre (GEC) is an online information portal on peatland management. The site is dedicated to exchange of information, identification of problematic areas in management, sharing of ideas, and enhancing global awareness of pertinent issues in peatland management. News and current issues on this topic are published in the newsletter, PeatMatters.
Planet Ark is a non-profit online environmental news service hosted by Reuters, with articles searchable according to a comprehensive list of topics. Users can register to receive daily email alerts, and the site also gives access to
Reuters environmental news pictures (copyrighted).
