Species Survival Commission
Species conservation network: a science-based organization, offering to the conservation and development communities the knowledge and tools needed for sound decisions regarding ecosystems and the people who depend on them. The web site is an umbrella for the component specialist groups, programs, publications and Red Lists.
IUCN
The world conservation union, whose mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
Bushmeat Crisis Task Force
A consortium of conservation organizations and scientists dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations threatened by commercial hunting of wildlife for sale as meat.
2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Provides taxonomic, conservation status, and distribution information on taxa that are facing a high risk of global extinction.
The Whitley Awards Foundation
Offers a wide range of awards and grants for nature conservation projects worldwide. Applications are welcome from those working in nature conservation, botanical and habitat conservation and renewable energy.
Office of Protected Resources
Provides advice for national policy direction and conservation of marine mammals, endangered species and their habitats.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
WildCRU Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Oxford University group develops practical solutions to conservation problems through research, implementation, education and local public involvement. Includes support and donation details.
Wildlife Conservation Society
USA organization managing national and international conservation projects, research and education programs.
Biological Conservation Newsletter
A monthly publication of the Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
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