* The
Conservation Agency
Dr. James (Skip) T. Lazell is a much-respected and much-published
herpetologist, with special expertise in the Southeast Asia region. In
particular, he and his colleagues at The Conservation Agency can accept
tax-deductible donations from US taxpayers and forward them to The Rainforest
Project. The Web site has info as of 1996; email
for current.
* Crocodile
Specialists Group
Ranchers and scientists working together to preserve all kinds of crocodilians.
Headquarters in Florida.
* The
Indonesian Nature Conservation Database
Data on the parks, mammals, and birds of Indonesia, with links to related
sites. Run by Ed Colijn.
* University
of Minnesota Dept. of Plant Pathology The mission and the resources
of the lab that is working with TRP on studying resin formation in Aquilaria.Includes
a bio of our own Dr.
Bob Blanchette
*
W3 Tropicos
A nomenclatural database on the world's vascular plants, giving bibliographic
references on where and when scientific names were determined or revised.
Run by the Missouri Botanical Garden.
* World
Conservation Monitoring Centre
A clearinghouse on conservation issues. Through it, for example, we
located the definitions for the labels used in the IUCN
Red List on species survival (extinct, extinct in the wild, critically
endangered, endangered, vulnerable, and lower risk).
* WWW
Virtual Library - Vietnam
An immense collection of links about Vietnam, every aspect of the country
and its people: geography, business, history, culture, etc. Also
run by Vern Weitzel is the email discussion group, Australia-Vietnam
Sci-Tech Link (listserver), which includes environmental issues.