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INTERNATIONAL ETHNOBIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
- GDF Biocultural Diversity Learning Network (BDLN)
- The Baca Institute of Ethnobiology
- Bioversity International (formerly IPGRI)- Human and Policy Aspects of Plant Genetic Resources
- ECOSEA, The Ethnobotanical Conservation Organization for Southeast Asia
- Institute for Culture and Ecology
- ITEC Courses in Tropical Ethnobotany
- IUCN-The World Conservation Union
- Journal of Ethnobiology
- People and Plants International
- IsIAO (Istituto Italiano per L'Africa e l'Oriente)
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Indigenous Organizations
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission (ATSIC)—Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- COICA—Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indigenas de la Cuenca Amazonica
- Indigenous Biodiversity Information Network (website under construction) The Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network (IBIN) is a mechanism to exchange information about experiences and projects and to increase collaboration among indigenous groups working on common causes related to biodiversity use and conservation.
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Indigenous Knowledge Programme
- Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat (Arctic)
- Inuit Indigenous Knowledge and Science in the Arctic
- North American Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Project
- Shinai Serjali, working to support isolated indigenous peoples who live in the remote rainforests of S.E. Peru.
- World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP)
Non-Governmental Organizations
- CIEER-Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education
- CIRAN/NUFFIC—Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, journal published through 2001; and associated IK Manual
- Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
- Index of Native American Health Resources on the Internet
- IUCN/The World Conservation Union—Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Initiative (IPCN)
- Language and Cultural Diversity at WestEd.org
- Resolutions and Recommendations, World Conservation Congress, Montreal, Canada, 13-23 October 1996—Indigenous Peoples and IUCN (200 KB, available on request from prestonh@home.com)
- Working Group on Traditional Resource Rights (WGTRR)
- Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A Guide for Researchers. Grenier, Louise (1998). International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
- PROTA
Inter-Governmental Organizations
- 21-25 February 2000 Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j) Sevilla, Spain SCBD
- CBD draft decisions
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Earth Negotiations Bulletin COP 7 coverage
- ECO - the NGO newsletter during COP 7
- IDRC International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
- Indigenous Knowledge
- The Manukan Declaration of the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network (IWBN)
- Sustainable Use of Components of Biological Diversity
- World Bank Africa Region Knowledge and Learning Center—Indigenous Knowledge Initiative and Key Resources for Indigenous Knowledge and Practices
- World Intellectual Property Organization
BRIDGES trade BioRes
ETC
- BioPirates of the South China Sea: Captain Hook Awards - 2004
- From Global Enclosure to Self Enclosure: Ten Years After - A Critique of the CBD and the "Bonn Guidelines" on Access and Benefit Sharing
GRAIN
- Biodiversity Convention to develop "regime" on benefit sharing
- COP 7 briefing
- Third World Network (TWN): Back to Basics: Revitalizing the Convention on Biological Diversity
UNEP
IUCN
- CBD COP7 gives priority to new programme on technology transfer for biological diversity
- CBD plunges into deep waters
- IUCN COP 7 Recommendations & Information Papers
- IUCN welcomes adoption of sustainable use principles by CBD
- Meeting of the Minds in Malaysia
- Protected areas make grand entrance at the CBD
- Protected areas take centre stage at the CBD COP7
GREENPEACE
- Netting the High Seas: How the Convention on Biological Diversity covers marine areas beyond national jurisdiction
- Protecting the Deep - Stopping the clear-cutting of the oceans rainforests
Friends of the Earth International
- Biopiracy threats at biodiversity meeting
- Biopiracy threats ignored at key U.N. meeting
- Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF): Biodiversity and Prosperity: Plenary Statement at COP 7
World wildlife Fund (WWF)
NEWS ARTICLES
SciDev.Net
BBC
Related Organizations
OTHERS
PUBLICATIONS
- Trading in Knowledge: Development Perspectives on TRIPS, Trade and Sustainability. Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Christophe Bellmann and Graham Dutfield (eds.) Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, United Kingdom 358 pp. http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=4020
- Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity. Available in PDF format at: http://shr.aaas.org/tek/handbook/
- World Information Transfer, in NY. See the latest newsletter on forest ecology & botany. . .check out the population to forest ratio graph: http://www.worldinfo.org/wers/2003/winter/2003winter.pdf
JOURNAL LINKS
- Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability http://www.ecologyandsociety.org
- The International Journal ETNOECOLOGICA (free) http://www.etnoecologica.org.mx
- Journal of Ecological Anthropology http://www.fiu.edu/jea