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Link
to institutions and organizations; links under each heading are listed alphabetically:
Research
and Academic Institutions/Think Tanks
Centre for International Forestry Research, Jakarta, Indonesia
Forest Policy and Environment Group - Overseas Development Institute, London
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Ibarakai, Japan
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India
Institute for Sustainable Forestry, Willits, California, USA
International Association for the Study of Common Property - Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. The IASCP has many useful papers and other resources for those interested in common property and forests.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC
International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford, UK
Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA
University of California Center for Forestry, Berkeley, California, USA World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) , Nairobi, Kenya
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK
World
Resources Institute, Washington, DC, USA Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven,
Connecticut, USA
Government
and Multilateral
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canada
Department for International Development (DFID), UK Food
and Agriculture Organization - Forestry, Rome
GTZ sector project IWRP-Services
- Support to International Forest-related Processes. IWRP-Services
are an advisory service of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische
Zusammenarbeit GTZ (German government-owned corporation for international
cooperation).
International Institute for Sustaible Development (IISD),
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD),
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany
UN Development Programme (UNDP), Bonn, Germany UN Forum on Forests,
a subsidiary body with the main objective to promote “… the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests and to strengthen long-term political commitment to this end…," New York, NY.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn, Germany US Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, DC
US Forest Service, Washington, DC World Bank
NGOs/Advocacy
Organizations
Conservation
International
Earthwatch Institute, Mass. USA Ecoagriculture
Partners
“Ecoagriculture”refers to sustainable agriculture and
associated natural resource management systems that embrace and
simultaneously enhance productivity, rural livelihoods, ecosystem
services and biodiversity. Ecoagriculture Partners is an umbrella
organization embracing diverse actors whose work is essential to
develop and scale up of ecoagriculture systems.
Ecotrust Fern - "Keeping track of EU forest activities"
Friends of the Earth Environmental Defense, Washington, DC
Greenpeace International Forests Campaign International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD),
Geneva, Switzerland
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Natural
Resources Defense Council - Forests page
Rainforest Action Network (RAN), San Francisco, CA World Rainforest Movement
WWF - Forests for Life
Forest
Products Industry
Weyerhaeuser
The
Collins Companies
AssiDomän
Mater
Engineering, Ltd.
Lignum,
Ltd.
The
Home Depot
Timberland
Services, Inc. - Forestry Resources on the Web
Steve
Shook's Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science and Marketing
International
Tropical Timber Organization
International
Wood Products Association
Society
of American Foresters
Sustainable
Business Network
Certified
and Wood Alternative Products
Forest
Stewardship Council
Soil
Association
GFA
Terra Systems Certification Programme
ICILA
- Istituto per la Certificazione ed i Servizi per le Imprese dell'Arredamento
e del Legno
South
African Bureau for Standards
Silva
Forest Foundation
Institute
for Market Transformation to Sustainability
Institut
für Marktökologie IMO
SKAL
- International Inspection and Certification Organization
BM
TRADA Certification
SGS
Forestry QUALIFOR Programme
Rainforest
Alliance SmartWood Program
Scientific
Certification Systems
Certified
Forest Products Council
Fiber
Futures: Promoting Innovative Tree-Free & Recycled Fiber
Products
American
Kenaf Society
The
Overstory - an online newsletter by agroforester.com
Agroforester.com
- Your Resource for Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry
Conservatree
Co-op
America's WoodWise Consumer Guide
ITTO
The
Pan European Forest Certification
Rain
Tree - non-timber rainforest products, information about
the rainforest, tropical plant database,
Advanced
Building Material's Straw Board information page
Forest
World - contains a database with certified forest products
USDA
Forest Service Southern Research Station
Indigenous
and Local Communities
International
Alliance of the Indigenous - Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests
Indigenous
Peoples and the Law - "an online institute of law affecting
indigenous peoples"
Rengah
Sarawak - a website about the indigenous peoples of Sarawak,
Malaysia
Indigenous
Peoples, Earth Council
Links
to web resources on indigenous peoples in Latin America
Center
for World Indigenous Studies
First
Nations' Environmental Network - Canada
Indigenous
Environmental Network - The Indigenous Environmental Network
is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is
to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and
exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional
teachings and the natural laws.
Red
de Información para Organizaciones Indígenas de Mexico
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.
Amazon
Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples
Biodiversity
Conservation Network - Supports "enterprise-oriented approaches
to biodiversity conservation at a number of sites across the
Asia/Pacific region..."
Other
Links
Rainforest
Action Network Tribal Links
The
European Tropical Forest Research Network topics
pages are a new webservice provided by the ETFRN.
The
Forest Conservation Portal provides vast rainforest, forest
and biodiversity conservation news and information.
Woodcenter.net
is a search engine dedicated to wood products, lumber, paper, and
packing.
World
Conservation Monitoring Centre's Environment Links
Steve
Shook's Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science and Marketing
Centre
for International Forestry Research - Sites of Interest
International
Institute for Sustainable Development - Forest Links
International
Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program - Online
Forestry Resources
Rain
Tree's index of rainforest related websites
Eco-Portal
- Largest searchable database server for environmental and sustainability
issues
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