Description:
This category is for web sites about political and/or social issues concerning the protection or conservation of forests.
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Sites 13
- American Forests Nonprofit conservation organization aims to protect, restore and enhance the natural capital of trees and forests. Includes information on membership, news, campaigns and resources.
- Forests Forever An organization which protects and enhances the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral activities.
- Forest Conservation: Australian Bush Heritage Fund Organisation that buys and then manages high-conservation private land in Australia as community-based conservation efforts.
- World Land Trust UK based conservation charity. Information about forest projects and resources for schools.
- Care2's Race For the Rain Forest This is a quick, easy way to help save the rain forest with a simple point and click. Each click generates a donation, paid by advertising sponsors, to The Nature Conservancy's Adopt An Acre Program.
- Rainforest Foundation UK An international organization working with indigenous peoples to conserve the world's rain forests and uphold their human rights.
- SeedTree USA campaign to preserve and renew forest ecosystems by developing a sustainable human ecology. News and details of programs.
- ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins The goal of the organzation is to raise productivity and income of rural households in the humid tropics without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services.
- Amazon Conservation Team 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.
- East Maui Watershed Partnership EWMP works to protect East Maui's native Hawaiian rainforest and primary water source by building fenced exclosures and removing invasive species. Details of goals, projects, natural and cultural history of Maui's rainforests. Glossary of watershed management terms.
- NRDC: Wildlands Outlines the Natural Resources Defense Council's work on preserving USA forests and tackling the causes of forest destruction.
- The Pachamama Alliance Dedicated to protecting the Earth's rain forests and the indigenous peoples who live within them. News and action alerts. Virtual rain forests tour.
- Rain Forests—Can They Be Saved? Feature on tropical rain forests in The Watchtower (Jehovah's Witnesses).