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American Forest & Paper Association (www.afandpa.org), an industry group, provides links to news updates, forest science and technology, global forest management, and publications. American Farmland Trust (AFT) (www.farmland.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to farmland preservation, has a database of research on farmland protection, conservation practices, and integrated pest management. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (www.cifor.cgiar.org) is operated by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an association of public and private members supporting a system of 16 international agricultural centers that operate in more than 100 countries. CIFOR?s goal is to improve the scientific basis for ensuring the balanced management of forests and forest lands, and the site provides links to research projects such as Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Forest Degradation, and Changes in Human Welfare, as well as information about publications, funding opportunities, and symposiums. European Forest Institute (www.efi.fi), an independent, nongovernmental organization, allows users to access news updates, grant and funding opportunities, and research on European forests. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (www.fao.org) contains an extensive database of forestry research, such as FORGEN, the FAO?s global information system on the genetic resources of the world?s forests, and the FAOSTAT forestry trade flow data collection. Forest Frontiers Initiative (www.wri.org/ffi) sponsored by the World Resources Institute, has links to forest data in seven regions as well as resources on forest management. International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (iufro.boku.ac.at) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental international network of forest scientists. The site features an online reference library, as well as the SilvaTerm database that provides approximate equivalents of the forest terminology used in nine different languages. United Nations Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification (www.unccd.int/main.php) includes information about the treaty, as well as regional data describing the problems faced in different countries and information about desertification experts in those nations. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (www.fs.fed.us) has an extensive collection of online resources, including tools like the wildland fire assessment system, an atlas that predicts how climate change could affect tree species distribution, and a number of databases of Native American flora and fauna like the Hopkins U.S. System Index (HUSSI), a collection of information about insects and diseases that affect forests or wood products. Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org), a nonprofit environmental organization, offers links to its annual State of the World reports, as well position papers in a variety of lengths on a wide range of topics, some of which, like Cutting the Costs of Paper: Saving Forests, Water, Energy ... and Money deal with forest and land issues. World Resources Institute (WRI) (www.wri.org), a nonprofit environmental organization that takes a solutions-oriented approach to global problems, has interactive forest maps, information on carbon sinks, and tropical forests news updates. Forests and land management are just two of the environmental topics for which WRI has extensive resources. |