Australian environment and community NGOs:
Animal Liberation (Australia)
Australian Conservation Foundation. (peak national environmental NGO).
Australian Gene Ethics Network
Australian Bush Heritage Fund
Australian Bush Heritage Trust - now Bush Heritage Australia
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Australia Zoo (founded by Steve and Terri Irwin) Wildlife Warriors Worldwide
Birds Australia
Blue Mountains Conservation Society
Centre for Sustainable Living (WA, Denmark)
Colong Wilderness Foundation
Ecological Society of Australia
Environmental Law Publishing (by Chris McGrath)
Friends of the Earth (Australia)
Green Innovations (a site focussing on green economics and related issues)
Humane Society International (Australia)
Northern Australian Environment Alliance
Our community (linking community resources)
Voiceless (animal rights)
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Australia. 

Other Australian environment sites:
Australian Government Environmental Information Portal.
Check out the comprehensive links at the Australian Environmental Defenders Office website
Aggregated environmental information (strongly water-related).
Australian National Ecological Meta Database
Australian National Land and Water Resources Audit
Land and Water Australia's NRM Toolbar (Australian NRM databases and organisations)

Australian Legal Information Institute

Marine sites (international);  marine sites (Australia);  freshwater sites.

Australian 'alternative' news and current affairs:
Crikey
Tasmanian Times

International UN / environment / human rights / NGOs and consultancies:

Affluence and over-consumption: Ted Trainer
Auditing: Environmental Auditing

Australian whistle-blowers: Lance Collins (Australian Army - exposed corruption within the Army's intelligence organisation); Simon Illingsworth (Victorian Police - exposed corruption within the police drug squad, and, by implication, weakness and poor management at senior management levels within the larger organisation); Peter Cahan (Australian Navy - exposed corruption after the Voyager disaster).

Biodiversity: check out marine links; Alliance for zero extinction; Convention on Biological Diversity: home website; country reports. Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots

Center for Environment, Health and Justice (pollution, toxics; USA)

Child care: The natural child project; useful reading

Climate change: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;  RealClimate (scientific commentary);  International Research Institute for Climate Prediction; 
Indian Ocean Climate Initiative;  European Science Foundation discussion site;  
Greenhouse Gas Online (popular, but science-based); Conversation with James Lovelock; British Govt Climate Change website.

China: 
recommended reading: Paul Monk (2005) Thunder from the silent zone. Scribe, Sydney.
Conservation International (biodiversity hotspots)
Corporate Watch;  Corporate behaviour: GetNewVision website;

David Suzuki Foundation (Canadian NGO focussing on global environment issues).

Envirolink / Net for change (links to many other environmental sites)
European Commission Environment;    European Union Law

Ethics: Center for the Study of World Religions;  Deep Ecology; Religion and nature;  Prof Bron Taylor on Deep Ecology;  Online Ethics;  Readings in environmental ethics; 
Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship (anti-scientific right wing "environmental ethics" - definitely not endorsed by OnlyOnePlanet; listed here for interest).  Ecology and Christianity - Sean McDonagh (Columban Fathers). 

Filmmakers: International Wildlife Film... ; Filmmakers for Conservation
Friends of the Earth (greenhouse, pollution control etc)

Global Response (promotes environmental and social change through letter writing)
Genetics / GM foods:  UK info;  UK Genetics Forum;  UK gm shoppers' guide;
Greenpeace (greenhouse, pollution control, marine animals, biotechnology)

Health and the environment: Alternative cancer info (UK);  British Holistic Medicine Association;    Health Report Australian Broadcasting Commission;  Wisconsin Medical College (provide free health e-newsletter). Healthy babies: march of dimes

Human rights:  Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN);  a collection of links.  American Friends;   Amnesty International;   Childrens rights;  Julian Burnside on Australian immigration policy (Feb 2005).   Human Rights Watch;     Service Committee  Chika Honda (wrongfully imprisoned in Australia).  International Criminal Court;   International Alert
Anti-slavery International. Chagos Islanders illegally expelled by Britain and the USA.  
John Pilger  Susan George  Robert Fisk  human rights investigations. International law? see "Crimes against humanity" by Geoffrey Robertson (Penguin 1999). George Monbiot.

Institute for Policy Studies (democracy and social justice issues; USA).
International Forum on Globalization. (corporate watch, trade policies...)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (corporate and UN sponsored)

The Middle East: Robert Fisk - journalism with integrity

Millennium Assessment Report (World Resource Institute)

One World  (sustainable development, human rights)

Pantheists (environmental ethics and philosophy)

Pollution: Pesticide Action Network (USA) email: panna@panna.org; 
US EPA on endocrine disruptors.

Population: Population Action (focussing on populaiton / environment links)
Population: ZPG ;  Population Institute  Sustainable Albemarle Population.

The Ecologist (international journal: global environment and development issues).
The Sierra Club (biotechnology, toxic waste, pesticides, forest, endangered species)
Third World Network (environment and development issues, first world - third world exploitation)

PR Watch (Center for Media and Democracy, USA)

Rainforest Action Network (global rainforests).

Resilience: Resilience Alliance; Resilience Science; Sante Fe Institute

Rocky Mountains Institute (USA) Amory Lovins.

Spirit Bear Youth Coalition Canadian NGO
Stockholm Environment Institute.  See their Water Evaluation and Planning software.
SustainAbility: a UK consultancy promoting sustainable business programs.  Free environmental news service.

Transnational Resource and Action Center (corporate watch, USA).

Union of Concerned Scientists (USA)

United Nations: UN Home;  Economic and Social Development Info; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); United Nations Development Program environmental data. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005. 

World Heritage Convention (the UNESCO site)
World Resources Institute (forests, biodiversity, climate change, sustainable agriculture etc)
World Watch Institute (environmental research and monitoring)

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