Biodirsity International Organizations

• Amazon Conservation Team, The - pioneers new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon  

• Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET) - an NGO network to strengthen biodiversity policy and law  

• Biodiversity Planning Support Programme -- UNDP - a programme established to respond to needs recognized by the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, including information gathering and dissemination  

• Biodiversity Support Program - promotes biodiversity conservation in many of the world's most biologically diverse areas  

• Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - preserves Canada's rare and endangered native plant species, wild habitats and ecosystems through the education and conservation programs of member botanical gardens and arboreta  

• Conservation Biology Institute - helps save the diversity of life on this planet in two primary ways: applied conservation research and education  

• Ecological Society of America - promotes ecological science by improving communication, raising public awareness, increasing resources for science and seeks the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision making  

• ETC Group - dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies  

• Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems world-wide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, are based on sound science and take account of human needs

• Gulf of Guinea Islands' Biodiversity Network - provides information about the biodiversity, and its conservation, of the four Gulf of Guinea islands of Bioko, Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón in Africa  

• Indonesia Program -- Conservation International - the Indonesian branch of the organization that seeks to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, biodiversity and demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature (

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) -- Costa Rica - promotes a new awareness of the value of biodiversity to achieve its conservation and use to improve the quality of life  

• National Biodiversity Network - an information network of British biodiversity data

• Operation Migration - dedicated to the restoration of migration routes for endangered or threatened species of birds

• Rare Species Conservatory Foundation - dedicated to preserving biological diversity by developing conservation strategies for saving endangered plants and animals  

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - leading research center that conducts scientific investigations throughout the New and Old World tropics

• Society for Conservation Biology - an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity  

• Xerces Society, The - focuses on public education about invertebrates and conservation projects that demonstrate their critical roles in endangered ecosystems around the globe