Endangered Species Organizations:
|
www.nbii.gov
|
National Biological Information Infrastructure was created to
allow vast quantities of biological information housed in various
databases from many agencies and departments to be linked
together for quick and easy access to information. Search
documents by species, keyword, etc.
|
www.stopextinction.org
|
Endangered Species Coalition is the guardian of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 and an advocate for all
endangered species issues.
|
www.biologicaldiversity.org
|
Endangered Species Act. The US Fish and Wildlife Service and
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Fisheries share responsibility for administration of the Endangered
Species Act.
|
www.worldwildlife.org
|
World Wildlife Fund safeguards hundreds of species around the
world, but focuses special attention on their flagship species: giant
pandas, tigers, endangered whales and dolphins, rhinos, elephants,
marine turtles and great apes.***
|
www.defenders.org
|
Defenders of Wildlife is committed to protecting wildlife across
the nation, with established offices in nine states and Canada and
Mexico, in addition to headquarters in D.C. ***
|
www.iucnredlist.org
|
International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN)
through its Species Survival Commission, has for more than four
decades been assessing the conservation status of species,
subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a global
scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and
therefore promote their conservation.
|
www.biologicaldiversity.org
|
Center for Biological Diversity. Works to secure a future for all
species hovering on the brink of extinction through science, law,
and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters,
and climate that species need to survive."
|
www.birdlife.org
|
Birdlife. Birds on the IUCN Red List
In the latest assessment in 2008, 1,226 species are considered
threatened with extinction.
|
www.zeroextinction.org
|
Alliance for Zero Extinction, a global initiative of biodiversity
conservation organizations, aims to prevent extinctions by
identifying and safeguarding key sites and eliminating threats and
restoring habitat to allow species populations to rebound.
|
www.rarespecies.org
|
Rare Species Conservatory Foundation is a non-profit
organization dedicated to preserving biodiversity through grass
roots conservation programs rooted in sound science. RSCF
employs the "flagship species" concept to identify and
conserve high profile, priority species in order to leverage
protection for the ecosystems they represent.
|
| |
|
| |
Endangered Species Reports:
|
www.stateofthebirds.org
|
State of the Birds report reveals troubling declines of bird
populations during the past 40 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service coordinated creation of the report as part of the U.S. North
American Bird Conservation Initiative, which includes numerous
partners. ***
|
| |
|
''Species are disappearing at rates about 1,000 times faster than normal''
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/21/network
|
|
