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BIODIVERSITY and
CONSERVATION
A Hypertext Book by Peter J.
Bryant
School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION,
HISTORY OF LIFE
Chapter 2: THE
AGE OF MAMMALS
Chapter 3: EXTINCTION
AND DEPLETION FROM OVER-EXPLOITATION
Chapter 4: WHALING
AND FISHING
Chapter 5: OVEREXPLOITATION
THREATENING LIVING SPECIES
Chapter 6: GLOBAL
PATTERNS OF BIODIVERSITY
Chapter 7: VALUES
OF BIODIVERSITY
Chapter 8: ENDANGERED
SPECIES PROTECTION
Chapter 9: EXOTIC
INTRODUCTIONS
Chapter 10: FORESTS
AND DEFORESTATION
Chapter 11: ENDANGERED
AQUATIC HABITATS
Chapter 12: ISLANDS
Chapter 13: PROTECTED
AREAS
Chapter 14: HABITAT
POLLUTION
Chapter 15: CAPTIVE
BREEDING AND REINTRODUCTION
Chapter 16: HUMAN
POPULATION GROWTH
International Resources Link
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National
Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan,
India
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The
Tree of Life -- A
distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny
and biodiversity. If you are a biologist with interest in taxonomy,
this project has to be experienced to be believed.
- the Convention
on Biological Diversity - UNEP. Signed by over 150 governments
at the Rio "Earth Summit" in June 1992.
- BIN21
Biodiversity Information Network - Its purpose is to support the
Convention on Biological Diversity and the Agenda 21 that followed
the 1992 Earth Summit at Rio, by facilitating efficient access to
information relating to all aspects of biodiversity.
- Biodiversity
and Ecosystems NEtwork (BENE) - a U. S. site devoted to
biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection, restoration, and
management.
- Canadian
Biodiversity Information Network (CBIN) - Canada's contribution
in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Agenda 21 and
BIN21.
- Biodiversity,
Ecology, and the Environment listings
from the WWW Virtual Library and Harvard Biological Laboratories.
- Critical
Plant Taxa - Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group
listing of U.S. endangered plant species.
- Biodiversity and the species
extinction crisis in Hawaii are the subjects of a previous issue of Our
Environment - Online (Vol. 1, No. 3), a very good
ezine from Maui.
- WWF
global network - Homepage of the World Wildlife Fund (or World
Wide Fund for Nature) provides news and information on all aspects
of conservation and the environment.
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