Project to provide indexing and links for all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.
A non-profit organization with the goal of recording a complete inventory of all species on Earth within 25 years.
Comprehensive information on 25 of the world's biologically richest and most threatened ecosystems.
Interactive maps of biodiversity and human impacts from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
What is biodiversity, what threatens it, why is it important, and what are ecologists doing to better understand it? From Ecological Society of America. [PDF file]
The Canadian Museum of Nature's quarterly magazine. Covered Canadian and international biodiversity news in science, politics, education, community and individual initiatives between 1991 and 1999.
International collaborative project with the goal of providing accurate scientific information and predictive models of the status of biodiversity and sustainability of the use of the Earth's biotic resources, and to build a world-wide capacity for the science of biodiversity.
Overview and definitions.
Background papers from the World Resources Institute on social and political dimensions of environmental policy-making.
Introductory documents on understanding and conserving biodiversity.
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