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A German-supported (mega)transect study of the Biodiversity of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), and Southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa).
http://www.biota-africa.de
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A forest certification service aims to develop a certification information network to educate stakeholders and promote certification in East Asia and the Pacific.
http://www.forestandtradeasia.org
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Information and research about Ontario's remaining old-growth forest ecosystems, including where to see them and how to help conserve them.
http://www.ancientforest.org
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Information about the amazon rainforest, its people, places of interest, and how everyone can help the rainforest.
http://www.amazon-rainforest.org
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Focus on cultural aspects - ACT is dedicated to creating new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon.
http://www.amazonteam.org/
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The Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme works on two interlinked global problems: rural poverty and the environmental effects of deforestation in the humid tropics.
http://www.asb.cgiar.org
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Coalition of regional and national environmental groups working to protect and restore the last great expanse of temperate rain forest in North America. Site includes information about forests and rainforests.
http://www.akrain.org/
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A non-profit organization devoted to replanting this threatened species in Tanzania. Blackwood is the premier wood of choice for fine concert-quality woodwind instruments, and the tree plays a vital role in the ecology of the East African savannah.
http://www.blackwoodconservation.org
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