LINKS TO AMAZON CONSERVATION SITES 
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Amazon rainforest general conservation websites:
• AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
http://www.amazonconservation.org/home/
The Amazon Conservation Association is a small non-profit organization
legally incorporated in the United States and in Peru. The directors
and staff are experienced tropical ecologists and conservationists.
Our goal is to conserve biodiversity through development of new
scientific understanding, sustainable resource management and
rational land-use policy for Amazonian ecosystems
• AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM—HOME
http://www.ethnobotany.org/
The Amazon Conservation Team's web site contains documents and
photographs useful to schools, scholars, students, and scientists
regarding the rivers, forests, and people of the Amazon. The site
contains documents regarding Amazon headwaters, Amazon forests,
ethnobiology, ethnobotany, shamanism, medicinal plants, conservation,
education, and research.
• AMAZON INTERNATIONAL
http://www.amazoninternational.org
Amazon International was formed to preserve Brazilian resources
in an environmentally sound manner, benefiting the people of Brazil
and the world.
• AMAZONWATCH
http://www.amazonwatch.org/index.html
Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations
in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous
peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil
& gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.
• APECA—CONSERVATION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST IN PERU
http://www.APECAPeru.org/
APECA, Inc. (formerly PPACE, Inc., see below) is a non-profit
organization with projects in the Peruvian Amazon.
• BUY THE RAINFOREST
http://BuyTheRainforest.Net/
We are a nonprofit group of Peruvian naturalists and U. S. American
scientists working together on a unique concept and the most effective
way of saving the Rainforest before is gone.
• CLICK TO SAVE THE RAINFOREST
http://www.therainforestsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites
The Rainforest Site. Each click saves more of the rainforest.
• CONAPAC
http://www.amazon-travel.com/CONAPAC.htm
Conservacion de la Naturaleza Amazonica del Perú A.C. CONAPAC,
the Civil Association for Conservation of the Peruvian Amazon
Environment, is an NGO started in July of 1990, in Iquitos, Peru,
by a group of Teachers, Forestry Engineers, and Employees of the
Travel Agency Exploraciones Amazonicas S.A. - Explorama Lodges.
• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
http://www.conservation.org
Conservation International's (CI) mission is to conserve the Earth's
living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate
that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
• ECOPORTAL
http://www.eco-portal.com
The Eco-portal is the Internet's most comprehensive environmental
resource ever, linking and providing full text search capabilities
for the entire contents of over 3,000 reviewed Internet sites
related to environmental sustainability.
• ELAN: Peru - Conservacion de la Naturaleza
Amazonica
http://csf.colorado.edu/elan/jan99/0057.html
• FOREST.ORG ON-LINE DISCUSSION
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An on-line forum for frank and courteous discussion regarding
how to bring about Amazon rainforest sustainability.
• GAIA FOREST CONSERVATION ARCHIVES
http://www.links2go.com/more/forests.org/forests/malaysia.htm
Links and topics related to Gaia & Forest
& Conservation & Archives, Malaysian & Rainforest
& Conservation & Documents.
• PRESERVING THE AMAZON RAINFOREST... STEP ONE: DEFEAT FATALISM (Aug 2004)
http://www.infobrazil.com/Conteudo/Front_Page/Twenty_Questions/Conteudo.asp?ID_Noticias=844&ID_Area=2&ID_Grupo=10
Dr. Philip M. Fearnside, an ecologist, is a Research Professor in the Department of
Ecology at INPA—the National Institute for Research in the Amazon, based in
Manaus...
• ISPTR/PARD
http://www.isptr-pard.org/
International Society for the
Preservation of the Tropical Rainforest/Preservation of the Amazon
River Dolphin asks for help in protecting the people and all life.
They are an American non-profit foundation.
• MACAW LANDING FOUNDATION
http://www.cnnw.net/~mlf/
The foundation is dedicated to the preservation of Macaws. We,
as a conservation organization, promote and apply scientifically
based information from the field to the propagation of endangered
Macaws, to wildlife management, and to environmental education,
while building public awareness and supporting other organizations
that work to preserve Macaws in the wild.
• PACHAMAMA
http://pachamama.org/about/index.htm
The mission of The Pachamama Alliance is: (1) To preserve the
Earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people
who are its natural custodians. (2) To contribute to the creation
of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.
• PLANET-SAVE
http://www.planet-save.com/
The only e-mail service in the world that allows you to save five
square feet of Amazon basin rainforest with every e-mail sent
or received. All for free.
• P.E.E.R. RAINFOREST CONSERVATION PAGE
http://members.tripod.com/~Star_World/world/rainforest.html
Rainforest Conservation YMCA Earth Service Corps Their Activities
section has lesson plans on a variety of environmental topics.
"Forest Roleplay" can be used with all age groups. "Web
of Life" can be used with other animals, but this classic
ecology lesson is shown here with organisms from the rainforest.
• PEOPLE PROMOTING AMAZON CONSERVATION AND
EDUCATION (PPACE)
http://www.latinsynergy.org
Non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of the Peruvian
Amazon rain forest, its native peoples and their cultures.
• RAINFOREST ALLIANCE HOME PAGE
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization
dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests. Our mission
is to develop and promote economically viable and socially desirable
alternatives to rainforest destruction through education, research
and cooperative partnerships with businesses, governments and
local peoples. Allies in the Rainforest is an easy way for
individuals, school groups and classes, and community organizations
to directly help grassroots conservation efforts in the tropics.
• RAINFOREST CONSERVATION FUND
http://cluster.interaccess.com/~rcf/index.html
The Rainforest Conservation Fund is an all-volunteer non-profit
organization (501)(c)(3) dedicated to preserving the world's tropical
forests.
• RAINFORESTS: DIVERSITY AND DESTRUCTION
http://www.davesite.com/rainforests/
Rainforests: Important information about them
and their destruction, and how to prevent it from disappearing...
• THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/rainhome.html
The mission of the Rainforest Foundation (UK) is to support indigenous
people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests
in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their
rights.
• RAINFOREST MEDICAL
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Home Page of Rainforest Medical Foundation (RMF). To focus attention
on the conservation, study and use of medicinal plants.
• RAINFOREST PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
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• RARE SPECIES CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION
http://www.rarespecies.org/
The Rare Species Conservatory Foundation is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to preserving biological diversity. RSCF is dedicated
to saving endangered plants, animals and habitat, and restoring
critical species in the wild.
• SAVE THE RAINFOREST
http://www.lascruces.com/~saverfn/index.html
STR is a nonprofit organization that specializes in conducting
rainforest tours/courses for teachers and students. We also produce
rainforest curriculums, videos and posters, and involve schools
in conservation projects in the tropics.
• TROPICAL RAINFOREST COALITION FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF RAINFORESTS WORLDWIDE
http://www.rainforest.org/
Tropical rainforest conservation and protection of indigenous
peoples and their cultures in these forests. Based in Silicon
Valley, California, Tropical Rainforest Coalition's Save-an-Acre
Program has spawned off numerous nongovernmental organizations
working to protect land in the Neotropics.
• WILDERNESS COMMITTEE
http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/
Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC, or (WC)**2) is a non-profit
environmental society working for the preservation of Canadian
and international wilderness through research and education.
• WORLDWIDE FOREST, RAINFOREST & BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION INFORMATION
http://www.forests.org/world/
Provides recent coverage, as well as archives for the past 5 years,
of worldwide forest protection campaign issues. Conservation,
rainforests, and indigenous rights. 2,500 documents archived.
• WORLD LAND TRUST
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/
The World Land Trust is a UK based conservation charity, concerned with
the protection of the world's most biologically important and threatened
habitats.
• WORLD RAINFOREST MOVEMENT
http://www.wrm.org.uy/index.html
The World Rainforest Movement is an international network of citizens' groups
involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests. It works to secure the
lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend
the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms,
colonisation and settlement and other projects that threaten them.
• WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: GLOBAL 200: AMAZON
http://worldwildlife.org/amazon/
Focus on the Amazon and how World Wildlife Fund is protecting
the world's richest rain forest, including Amazon sounds, e-postcard,
actions, and background information.
More Amazon-related conservation links will be added shortly.
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