Forest Conservation Sites

The Alaska Rainforest Campaign
The Alaska Rainforest Campaign is a coalition of national and local conservation organisations working for the protection and restoration of Alaska's temperate rainforest, and their site includes extensive information about the rainforest, logging etc.

Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON)
ANCON is the main conservation organisation in Panama, and this site provides details of their work to protect the rainforests, marine ecosystems and wildlife there. It also includes information about Panama's national parks, and profiles of some of the country's endanagered species.

Australian Rainforest Conservation Society
This site provides information about the work of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, which aims, through research, lobbying, public education and grass roots support, to protect, repair and restore the rainforests of Australia.

Conservation International
Conservation International is working to protect tropical rainforest ecosystems in 10 key 'hot spot' areas of the world. This site details their distinctive approach to conservation and also includes information about some of the areas where they're working.

Daintree Rainforest Rescue
The Daintree is a small area of lowland tropical rainforest in northern Queensland, Australia. This site contains information about the high diversity of plant families there (which includes the world's most primitive flowering plant), and details of the threats the area faces from real estate development and the installation of mains electricity.

Earth First! Journal
This site features articles from the journal of Earth First!, the radical environmental movement, covering subjects such as the preservation of biological diversity and wilderness rehabilitation, visionary wilderness proposals and essays exploring Deep Ecology topics.

Friends of Clayoquot Sound
This site provides information on the goals and work of Friends of Clayoquot Sound, an organisation working to protect and defend the ancient temperate rainforests of Clayoquot Sound on Canada's Vancouver Island, which are highly endangered by industrial logging.

Gaia Forest Conservation Portal
This site features a vast range of information concerning rainforest and biodiversity conservation and management around the world, with extensive materials from Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Canada, America, Malaysia, Russia, and over a dozen other countries/regions.

Global Canopy Programme
The Global Canopy Programme seeks to link existing and new projects studying the world's forest canopies, which may contain half of all the species on Earth, into one integrated global programme of research, education and conservation. The programme will throw new light on the critical role of forest canopies in biodiversity and climate change, and it also aims to identify societal benefits from forest canopies, including non-timber forest products, healthcare and eco-tourism.

Headwaters Forest
Headwaters Forest is the largest remaining unprotected old growth redwood forest in the world, located on the northern California coast. This site includes information and photographs of the forest, details of the threats it faces from logging and of the campaign for its protection.

Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network's excellent Web site includes a wealth of information, such as details of their campaigns on behalf of the world's rainforests, action alerts about specific areas, RAN's, details of how each person can help and a children's section about rainforests.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
This site provides details about the work and research programmes of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, one of the world's leading centres for investigation into the ecology of tropical rainforest ecosystems.

Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
This site is about the work of the Society for Ecological Restoration, whose mission is to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and re-establishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
This site is about the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the best examples of temperate coastal rainforest remaining in the world. Information includes the massive logging operations taking place there, and the efforts of conservation groups to get more of the area protected.

Taiga Rescue Network
The Taiga Rsecue Network works for the conservation of the northern boreal forests of the world, and their site contains information about their campaigns, both for specific areas, and to promote ecologically-sustainable forestry in general.

Walbran Valley
The Walbran Valley is a small endangered rainforest on the southern coast of Vancouver Island in Canada. The site contains information about the area and the effects of logging there.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
This site has several conservation databases, containing information on protected areas of the world and endangered species. It also includes WCMC's Forest Information Service which has data and maps available on-line about forests, their diversity and conservation status worldwide.

World Wide Rainforest Report
This is an electronically-networked version of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia's quarterly Report on the state of the world's forests and forest people, with the added depth of spiritual, philosophical and ethical explorations of issues relevant to the environmental movement.

WWF's Forest for Life Programme
This site forms part of the World Wide Fund for Nature's vast information resource on the Web, and features WWF's campaign for the forests of the world, including details of the global loss of forests, and the effects of the international timber trade.