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Rainforest Information Centre
Rainforest news, information, action alerts and alternatives to rainforest timbers.
http://forests.org/ric/
The Pachamama Alliance
Dedicated to protecting the Earth's rain forests and the indigenous peoples who live within them. News and action alerts. Virtual rain forests tour.
http://www.pachamama.org/index.htm
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN)
Information on boreal forest ecology and biodiversity, the cultures of the boreal regions, threats faced by boreal forests worldwide.
http://www.taigarescue.org/
Forest Conservation Archives and Portal
Rainforest, forest, biodiversity news and information.
http://forests.org/
Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation
Describes the emergence of religious concern for forest conservation and provides a variety of resources toward a religious ethic of forests.
http://www.creationethics.org
World Rainforest Movement
Campaign against large scale monoculture tree plantations in many countries. These plantations are resulting in a number of negative social and environmental impacts on local communities.
http://www.wrm.org.uy/
Rainforest Foundation UK
An international organization working with indigenous peoples to conserve the world's rain forests and uphold their human rights.
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/
Care2's Race For the Rain Forest
This is a quick, easy way to help save the rain forest with a simple point and click. Each click generates a donation, paid by advertising sponsors, to The Nature Conservancy's Adopt An Acre Program.
http://rainforest.care2.com/
Deforestation: Humankind and the Global Ecological Crisis
A review of world forest issues and their social causes, effects, and solutions.
http://www.aquapulse.net/knowledge/deforestation.html
Can Our Rain Forests be Saved?
Feature on tropical rain forests in The Watchtower (Jehovah's Witnesses).
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/5/8/article_00.htm
Rainforests of the World
Personal page about rainforests.
http://www.geocities.com/jeff_p_simon_98/
Instituto Terra
Non-profit organization, helping to conserve and restore Brazil's threatened Atlantic Forest through education, research and reforestation.
http://www.institutoterra.org/
Children's Rainforest
Non-profit association working to save the world's rainforests by buying the rainforest in order to save it. Provides project and sponsorship information.
http://www.barnens-regnskog.net/
Mountain Forest Project
Organizes volunteer workcamps in Switzerland, Germany and Austria that contribute to the conservation of the mountain forest ecosystem.
http://www.bergwaldprojekt.ch/english/eingang_index.htm
Proforests
Ideas on protection of natural forests.
http://utenti.lycos.it/proforest/
NRDC: Forests
Outlines the Natural Resources Defense Council's work on preserving USA forests and tackling the causes of forest destruction.
http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/
Rainforest Renaissance Project
Supports afforestation and agroforestry projects in Central America.
http://www.rainforestproject.org/
SeedTree
USA campaign to preserve and renew forest ecosystems by developing a sustainable human ecology. News and details of programs.
http://www.seedtree.org/
Rainforest Relief
Nonprofit dedicated to ending the destruction of the world's tropical and temperate rainforests.
http://www.rainforestrelief.org/
Forest Magazine
Magazine about USA public forests.
http://www.fseee.org/forestmag/
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