Biodiversity - Resources

Links

• The Audubon Center in Greenwich, CT offers birders, families, students, teachers, photographers, hikers and all who are interested in learning about the natural world a place to explore and discover.
• Check out this resource on the mass extinction of many diverse species happening right now on our planet. Click here
• The Center for Biological Diversity
  Protections for endangered species and their ecosystems
  http://www.sw-center.org/swcbd/
• IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare 
  http://www.ifaw.org
• World Wildlife Fund
  "We shan't save all we should like to, but we shall save a great deal more than if we had never tried."
  - Sir Peter Scott (1909-89), WWF founder 1961
  http://www.wwf.org
• WildAid - 100% of donations go directly to the field - http://www.wildaid.org
• NRDC - http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/habitat/default.asp
• Defying Nature's End - An International Conference of World Leaders and Experts http://www.defyingnaturesend.com
• The Bioneers - We spread solutions-oriented stories — including both ecological models and social strategies — for restoring the earth. (or, Revolution from the heart of nature)  http://www.bioneers.org/
• Rainforest Action Network - Worth protecting- http://www.ran.org/about_ran/mission.html
• BBC Nature and Environment - an amazing resource for information from the UK - http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/
• World Ecology - Global News Network - http://www.worldecology.com
• Greenpeace International Forests Campaign http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/campaigns/intro?campaign_id=3938
• Check out this lampoon from the International Fund For Animal Welfare
  http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oId=94880

Articles

• The Sixth Extinction
  By Niles Eldredge
  http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.html
• Ancient Forests Under Fire in 2004, from Native Forest Network
  http://www.nativeforest.org/pdf/2004_Ancient_Forest_Sales.pdf
• Living Planet Report - from World Wildlife Fund http://www.panda.org/downloads/general/LPR_2002.pdf
• Cool maps of the world showing biodiversity and protected areas at World Resources Institute http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/index.cfm?theme=7
• The Endangered Species Act - The entire text
  http://www.sw-center.org/swcbd/Programs/policy/esatext.html
• "Fear In The Fields: How Hazardous Waste Becomes Fertilizer"
  

Books

• Biodiversity and Conservation, A Hypertext Book
  by Peter J. Bryant
  http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm
• Brutal Kinship
  by Dr. Jane Goodall and Michael Nichols
• Silent Spring
  by Rachel Carson
• Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves
  Edited by Kenny Ausubel, with J.P. Harpignies
• The Bioneers: A Declaration of Interdependence
  by Kenny Ausubel
• Gaia's Body, Toward a Physiology of Earth
  by Tyler Volk
• Earth In The Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
  by Al Gore
• Refuge
  by Terry Tempest Williams
• The Wump World
  By Bill Peet  (Read this book to your children)
• The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us,
  by Y. Baskin
• Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems,
  by G. Daily
• Requiem For Nature,
  by J. Terborgh
• The Diversity of Life,
  by E. O. Wilson
• Environmental Planet: Earth as a Living Planet,
  by D. B. Botkin and E. A. Keller
• The End of Nature,
  by Bill McKibben
• The Future in Plain Sight,
  by E. Linden