IGC Members: Read Forests discussion groups via
the World Wide
Web on the IGC Discussion Groups Page.
- @eagletree is a
regional freenet dedicated to British Columbia's most pressing
environmental issues, including the theft of natural
heritage, logging in drinking watersheds and urgent
transportation challenges.
- The Abiqua
Basin, homepage of Friends of Abiqua, a Silverton,
Oregon-based group created to address watershed concerns and
management issues in the Abiqua Basin.
- Alaska Boreal
Forest Council promotes responsible stewardship of Alaska's boreal forest
resources and assists the community in developing and implementing a vision of sustainability
for all forest-based resources.
- The Alaska
Rainforest Campaign
is a coalition of eight national and Alaskan environmental
conservation organizations united to confront the challenge of
protecting Alaska's rainforest.
- Ama's Environmental Alerts has the
latest on attempts to repeal the 'logging without laws' rider.
- American Forests is a
citizen's conservation group working for 'health communities and
forest ecosystems' since 1875.
- Cascadia Rising!
presents the efforts of Cascadia Forest Defenders at Warner
Creek, the Umpqua National Forest, and
elsewhere in the Northwest.
- Church of the Living
Tree promotes tree-free paper products.
- Debating
the Earth to Death is Oregonian Gene Greer's page of facts and links on
"the blizzard of anti-environmental activity going on right now" in the
United States.
- The
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
(E-LAW) is an international network of public interest attorneys,
scientists and other advocates sharing expertise and legal and scientific information
across borders in defense of the environment.
- The Environmental Protection Information
Center in Garberville, CA has been working to protect biodiversity
and ancient forests on the North Coast of California for over a decade.
EPIC's current focus is protecting Headwaters Forest, the largest
unprotected ancient redwood forest in the world.
- Forestry World Wide Web of
the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and the Finnish Forestry Gopher
- Forests for the Future includes aforests-related news library, legislation info, curricula for teachers andschools, alternative paper facts, a redwood lumber boycott petition, and much more.
- The Gaia Forest
Archives are a repository of materials on rainforest and worldwide forest biodiversity. Nearly 1,500 forest conservation articles
found here provide significant background materials on worldwide
efforts to conserve the world's forests, biodiversity and indigenous
cultures. The materials are unabashedly activist in content and
scope, drawing heavily from postings to EcoNet/APC Networks forest
related conferences over the past five years; and hoping to provide
opportunities for North/South partnerships to save forests and
biodiversity.
- Georgia
ForestWatch is a non-profit environmental group in N.
Georgia created to protect and restore Georgia's Chattahoochee
and Oconee National Forests.
- Hunger Strike for Ancient Forests:
Tim Ream's 75-day
protest against the salvage logging of Warner Creek in Oregon
ended on Saturday, December 16, 1995. Read Tim's daily journals at The Virtual Times International's Hunger
Strike in Eugene, OR site.
- IGC's
Habitats & Species Page
- In the Amazon provides up-to-date
and historical information on the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon, and on
the Amazon region in general. The content varies, and can be
environmental, political, economic and historical, with lots of
full-color digital photography.
- Mediate a timber
dispute with this role
play from Institute for Study of Alternative Dispute
Resolution
- Natural Resources Defense
Council is working to protect public lands. Check out the latest
updates on the legal and legislative fronts.
- New Forests
Project is a grassroots direct action program to promote
reforestation and reduce deforestation in "developing
countries". NFP has worked with more than 3,500 communities in
over 100 countries since 1982.
- Northwest
Ancient Forests has up-to-date info on what's hurting and who's helping the
ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest.
- Rainforest Action Network's highly interactive
action-oriented WWW page is one of the best on the net. RAN
brings the tools of activism to your fingertips. Made with
100%-recycled electrons. Point your browser to the RAN Web page and help
save the rainforest!
- The Rainforest
Alliance works for tropical forest conservation.
Projects include SmartWood, ECO-O.K., Amazon Rivers,
Conservation Media Center, Natural Resources and Rights,
Allies in the Rainforest, Catalyst Grants. Resources for
students, activists, and more.
- ReThinking Paper-The Paperless Times is a network
of environmental activists, scientists, and paper-industry
experts working to achieve ecological sustainability in the U.S.
pulp and paper market.
- Get the lowdown on salvage logging, the legislation endangering old
growth forests, and other aspects of the U.S. Forest Service's
timber policies and programs at the Salvage Primer
Page, a project of the Taxpayer's
Assets Project (TAP), founded by Ralph Nader in 1988 to
monitor the management and sale of government property.
-
Sierra Club and Sierra Club Action Alerts -- "One Earth,
One Chance"
- The Sustainable Development
Institute (SDI) seeks to heighten the environmental quality of
economic development efforts through improvements in policy and
practice. Its geographical concentration is on tropical forest regions
and the Atlantic coast of Canada, the U.S., and the eastern Caribbean.
-
Taiga Rescue Network
- The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
is a national, nonprofit land conservation
organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks,
gardens, natural areas and open space.
- Umpqua
Watersheds seeks to get Douglas County, Oregon residents
involved in the harvesting of the Ancient Forests, and provides
information on logging happening now in the
Umpqua National Forest.
- Yahoo's Forest
Index is a good place to find more links to forest science, education, industry,
and conservation.
- The Wildlands
League, an Ontario chapter of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness
Society, has been working since 1968 to protect Ontario's wild places.
- World Resources
Institute is an independent center for policy research and
technical assistance on global environmental and development
issues. WRI is dedicated to helping governments
and private organizations of all types cope with environmental,
resource, and development challenges of global significance.
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