LibGuides: BIOL 570: Conservation Biology: Websites for Conservation Biology

As you can imagine there are ample resources provided by governments, organizations, corporate and professional entities regarding conservation biology and related information.

Following are some prominent and mostly trustworthy resources to assist you in news reports, legal issues, reference resources (for species and ecosystems threatened or endangered) and more:

For even more resources, you may also want to consult the appropriate pages of:

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Some Online Resources to investigate include:

Access World News This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive news collection of issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Terms of Use
Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window
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Environmental Issues Online brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries, enabling students to build a critical understanding of the relationship between people and the environment through social, cultural, economic, political, historical and ecological perspectives. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Environmental Studies, content is drawn from the social sciences, ecology and earth science, and the humanities. Terms of Use

ITIS: Interagency Taxonomic Information System
The White House Subcommittee on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics has identified systematics as a research priority that is fundamental to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. This primary need identified by the Subcommittee requires improvements in the organization of, and access to, standardized nomenclature. ITIS (originally referred to as the Interagency Taxonomic Information System) was designed to fulfill these requirements. See about for agencies involved: https://www.itis.gov/info.html
Kansas Department of Wildlife: Threatened and Endangered Wildlife
Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory: Rare Plants and Animals
Kansas Noxious Weed Control Program
Encyclopedia of Life
Remember to find the scientific name and taxonomy for your species so that you will be able to focus your search and find related or comparative research!
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
Tropicos - world botanical data
The Tropicos database links over 1.37M scientific names with over 5.05M specimens and over 1.15M digital images. The data include over 161K references from over 54.4K publications offered as a free service to the world’s scientific community.
USDA Plants Database
Plant List of Accepted Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Symbols. The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Global Invasive Species Database
The Global Invasive Species Database is a free, online searchable source of information about alien and invasive species that negatively impact biodiversity. The GISD aims to increase public awareness about invasive species and to facilitate effective prevention and management activities by disseminating specialist’s knowledge and experience to a broad global audience. It focuses on invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity and natural areas and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants.
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. Founded in 1947, Defenders of Wildlife is the premier U.S.-based national conservation organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of imperiled species and their habitats in North America.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
USDA National Agriculture Library
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of five national libraries of the United States. It houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
U.S. Department of the Interior

Animal Diversity Web

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online resource of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Birds of North America

The Birds of North America is acknowledged as the preeminent source of life history information for the over 750 species of birds that breed in the United States and Canada. Maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in partnership with The American Ornithologists’ Union, this comprehensive resource is authored by experts on each species. Each species account includes information on systematics, distribution, identification, behavior, breeding biology, and conservation.

Red List of Threatened Species

Provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on plants and animals that have been globally evaluated to determine the relative risk of extinction, the main purpose of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List being to catalogue and highlight those plants and animals that are facing a higher risk of global extinction.