Biodiversity & CITES


Other Resoures



Sample Book List

Climate Change and Biodiversity. Ed. by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah. New Haven: CT: Yale U. Press. QH 541.15 .B56 C62 2004

Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss. Ed. by Alexander Wood, Pamela Stedman-Edwards and Johanna Mang. London: Earthscan. GE 140 .R66 2000


Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Ed. by Simon Asher Levin. Academic Press. QH 541 .15 .B56 E53 2001 5 vols. REF


Atlases

World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth’s Living Resources in the 21st Century. By Brian Groombridge and Martin Jenkins. UNEP & U. of California Press. CA8 UN 2002W51


Guides to Environmental Law/Agreements:

Handbook of the Convention on Biological Diversity Including its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. 3rd ed. Montreal: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. K 3488 .A41992 H36 2005


Environmental Indicators/Statistics:

Global Biodiversity Outlook. UNEP & Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. CA8 UN26 2006 G56


INTERNATIONAL NGO’S

Conservation International

International Institute for Sustainable Development

The World Conservation Union

WWF

World Conservation Monitoring Center

Consultative Group on International Agriculture

Center for International Forestry Research

Forest Stewardship Council


Top Conventions and Links to Info Pages –Listed by dates

1973: Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES)

1980: World Conservation Strategy

1982: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

1993: Convention of Biological Diversity.

2002: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.