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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
~Francis Bacon
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Resources
NON-PROFIT TRAVEL PARTNERS
TCT ORGANIZATIONS
GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
http://www.usgs.gov/
Created by an act of Congress in 1879. The USGS does studies on a national
scale, long-term monitoring and assessment of natural resources and
has no regulatory or management mandate
- National Parks Service
http://www.nps.gov/
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved legislation creating
the National Park Service within the Interior Department. The act made
the bureau responsible for Interior's national parks and monuments
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/
The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect
human health and to safeguard the natural environment--air, water, and
land--upon which life depends
- Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, Commerce
and Industry (Belize)
http://www.belize.gov.bz/cabinet/j_briceno/
welcome.shtml
- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index-e.html
CIDA supports sustainable development in developing countries in order
to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and
prosperous world
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
http://www.noaa.gov/index.html
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS/AGENCIES
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
http://www.cites.org/
An international agreement between Governments. Its aim is to ensure
that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does
not threaten their survival.
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/
envir_e/envir_e.htm
This links to the WTO trade and the environment page, and is a web-site
within itself. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global
international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.
- United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
http://www.un.org/works/environment/
environment3.html
- World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/en/
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency
for health. Began on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment
by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. WHO is governed
by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly.
- United Nations Development Program
http://www.undp.org/
- The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
http://www.undp.org/
Its members from some 140 countries include over 70 States, 100 government
agencies, and 750-plus NGOs. For more than 50 years this ‘Green
Web’ of partnerships has generated environmental conventions,
global standards, scientific knowledge and innovative leadership
- Europa (EU)
http://www.undp.org/
EUROPA is the European Union's portal web site
GREEN-BUSINESS LINKS
BOOK LIST/EDUCATION
- Longitude
http://www.longitudebooks.com/home.html
- National Geographic books
http://www.ngbooks.org/
- EE-Link Environmental Education link
http://eelink.net/cgi-bin/ee-link/view_sorted_page.cgi
EE-Link began as a service to environmental educators in 1992. At that
time our server was strictly a Gopher service. Our web site began in
1993 and, since 1994, EE-Link has been a leading force in bringing environmental
education to the Internet. Now, with over 10,000 users per week on average,
EE-Link has become a comprehensive website for exploring environmental
education on the Internet.
- The North American Association for Environmental Education
(NAAEE)
http://naaee.org/
A network of professionals, students, and volunteers working in the
field of environmental education throughout North America and in over
55 countries around the world. Since 1971
- EETAP
http://eetap.org/
A national leader in the delivery of environmental education training
for education professionals. EETAP is funded by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education through a cooperative
agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
GENERAL ENVIRONMENT ISSUES/ECO LINKS
- African Wildlife Foundation
http://www.awf.org
Together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife
and wild lands of Africa will endure forever
- World Wide Fund For Nature
http://www.panda.org/
WWF is a global organization acting locally through a network of family
offices. All these offices do all they can to halt the accelerating
destruction of our natural world.
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=107
Sida is the Swedish aid authority and operates by order of the Swedish
parliament and government. Sida's task is to create conditions conductive
to change and to socially, economically and environmentally sustainable
development.
- The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
http://www.gefweb.org/index.html
Established in 1991, helps developing countries fund projects and programs
that protect the global environment. GEF grants support projects related
to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation,
the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
(GTZ)
http://www.gtz.de/english/
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
is a government-owned corporation for international cooperation with
worldwide operations. In more than 130 partner countries, GTZ is supporting
c. 2,700 development projects and programs, chiefly under commissions
from the German Federal Government.
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