landscape International Organizations

•   Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Changes - an ebook of before-and-after Landsat images (1972-present), showing recent environmental events and introducing remote sensing from the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center 

•  Gondwana Forests Sanctuary - the Native Forest Network seeks to protect and restore the life of Gondwana by creating an international sanctuary of the Earth's southernmost forests in South America, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere 

•  Beyond Grass - dedicated to restoring our planet's ecological balance one yard at a time, offers and encourages alternatives to the lawn which offer greater habitat for birds and other animals, as well as a beautiful yard 

• Global Land Cover Characterization - a 1-km resolution global land cover characteristics data base useful for a wide range of environmental research and modeling applications 

• Global Observation of Forest Cover - seeks to improve the quality and availability of satellite observations of forests at regional and global scales and to produce useful, timely and validated information products from these data

• Legacy -- The Landscape Connection - delineates ecologically important areas and provides information for protection and restoration efforts in the Klamath Ecoregion of California and Oregon, promoting conservation of native biodiversity 

• NASA's Land Cover Land Use Change Program - developing the capability to perform repeated global inventories of land-use and land-cover from space and to improve understanding of the consequences of observed changes 

• Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative - working to maintain and restore the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region, to ensure this wilderness continues to function and support all its natural and human communities