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ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC)

Serves as the central focus for networking and institutional linkage among ASEAN Member Countries (AMCs) and between ASEAN and European Union (EU) partner organizations to enhance the capacity of ASEAN in promoting biodiversity conservation. ARCBC maintains an online database for species and protected areas in South East Asia and some meta-databases containing biodiversity related information.

Base de Dados Tropical (BDT - Tropical Data Base)

Disseminates biological information of environmental and industrial interest and through this, hopes to contribute directly to the conservation and sustainable use of Brazil's biological resources.

BIO-NICO

Biodiversity portal for Nicaragua.

Biodiversity and Conservation - A Hypertext Book

The origin, nature and value of biological diversity, the threats to its continued existence, and approaches to preserving what is left.

Biodiversity and WORLDMAP (Natural History Museum)

The Biogeography & Conservation Lab's mission is to develop and apply appropriate, explicit and accountable methods to tackle problems in biogeography and in biodiversity assessment to meet conservation needs at any spatial scale.

Biodiversity Web

A project containing information about biodiversity, its history, and characteristics. Furthermore it contains information about the ecological background of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and the protection of biodiversity, adverse human impacts on biodiversity, structural factors and material processes of biodiversity loss, and the (juridical) protection of biodiversity.

BioGIS: Israel Biodiversity Information System

A Geographical Information System established to create a national database of the flora and fauna of Israel. The database is open to the public and provides advanced tools for querying, analyzing, modeling, and visualizing patterns of species distribution.

Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas

Provides publicly accessible biological inventories of vertebrate fauna and vascular fauna on >750 protected areas in >100 countries which can be searched on species, country, protected area and also provides contact information to each protected site.

California Biodiversity Council

Formed to improve coordination and cooperation between the various resource management and environmental protection agencies at federal, state, and local levels.

Canadian Biodiversity Information Network

Providing as much information on Canadian biodiversity as possible, from all sectors.

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium

A major function of the Centre is to document the biological diversity of the Australian environment through establishing the taxonomic identity and relationships of native plants, their geographical distribution, and their ecological relationships.

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention's objectives are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

An interoperable network of biodiversity databases and information technology tools that will enable users to navigate and put to use the world's vast quantities of biodiversity information to produce national economic, environmental and social benefits.

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

INBio's mission is to promote a new awareness of the value of biodiversity, and thereby achieve its conservation and use to improve the quality of life in Costa Rica.

NatureServe

A non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action.

The Netherlands' Biodiversity Information Facility (NL-BIF)

The Dutch node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Netherlands Clearing-House Mechanism for Biodiversity (NL CHM)

Aims to offer information on the convention and its implementation in the Netherlands. It also provides easy access to knowledge about status and trends of the biodiversity in this country and brings you into contact with the people and organisations involved.

Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity

Specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.