US National Oganizations

http://www.inpa.gov.br/~pdbff/       BDFFP (formerly the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems) Project is a collaborative research effort headed by Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). The BDFFP, begun in 1979, is the only experimental study of the process of habitat fragmentation under way in the Amazon basin.

http://boto.ocean.washington.edu/eos/ EOS Amazon Project at the University of Washington is a NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Interdisciplinary Investigation.

http://www.whrc.org/science/tropfor/tropfor.htm The Woods Hole Research Center Amazon Program has been working in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 with a strategy combining basic research with education and training of local peoples in a problem solving approach to resource use.

http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm Raintree's website is dedicated to providing information and education on the important plants of the Amazon Rainforest.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/burn/wfabba/wfabba_amazonia_last.html GOES satellite imagery of fires in the Amazon is a NOAA program led by Elaine Prins at the University of Wisconsin.

http://www.wri.org/geo-same.html The World Resources Institute hosts a variety of information about the condition of the Amazon.

http://www.ran.org/ran/ The Rainforest Action Network Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

http://www.ethnobotany.org/ The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is dedicated to pioneering new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon.

http://www.amazonconservation.org/home/  The Amazon Conservation Association is a small non-profit organization legally incorporated in the United States and in Peru. The directors and staff are experienced tropical ecologists and conservationists. Our goal is to conserve biodiversity through development of new scientific understanding, sustainable resource management and rational land-use policy for Amazonian ecosystems.

http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/documents/pfinder.html The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project is funded through a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland at College Park's Geography Department, Michigan State University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's GIMMS Group. The goal of this work is to map global deforestation for the humid tropics. Data sets from both the TM (Thematic Mapper) and MSS (Multispectral Scanner System) of Landsat are being used for three time periods in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/trfic/index.html The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (EISP). Our mission is to provide NASA data products and information services to the science, resource management, and policy and education communities.

International Organizations

http://www.ibama.gov.br IBAMA hosts a mapping program of Brasil's extractive reserves and national forests; data input are from the conservation units. Portuguese only.

http://www.ipam.org.br The Institute of Environmental Research for Amazônia - IPAM, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that was created in May, 1995, with headquarters on the campus of the Federal University of Pará (UFPa) in Brasil. The Institute unites scientists and educators who share a commitment to excellence in science and education, forming the basis for an Amazon region that is environmentally healthier and socially more equitable.

http://www.Amazonia.org.br This general site is rich with information on the Amazon, ranging form the economy to parks and nature reserves.

http://www.mamiraua.org.br Llocated at the fork of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, along with the Auti-Paraná channel in the state of Amazonas (with a total area of 1,124,000 hectares), this reserve constitutes the largest Brazilian flooded forest conservation unit, and the only one in Brazil that is tooled up to protect the Amazonian floodplain ecosystem. Project administration is the responsibility of the Mamirauá Civil Society, a not-for-profit civil organization created in 1992, the principal objective of which is to contribute to the conservation and preservation of renewable natural resources, especially in areas of flooded forest.

http://www.bdt.org.br/index The aim of BDT is the dissemination of electronic information as a tool for the organization of the scientific and technological community of Brasil. It disseminates biological information of environmental and industrial interest and through this, hopes to contribute directly to the conservation and sustainable use of Brazil's biological resources.

http://www.unifi.it/amazon/welcome.html This site will be periodically updated onresearch activities being carried out by various European and Brazilian institutions and organizations for a wise management of Amazonian ecosystems.

http://www.iipm-mpri.org/ The Mining Policy Research Initiative (MPRI) is a relatively new program at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada). MPRI attempts to respond to the research needs important to the many stakeholders implicated in issues of sustainability, equity and mining development in Latin America and the Caribean.

http://yabae.cptec.inpe.br/abracos/ Monitoring of Amazonian climate and improving understanding of consequences of deforestation.

http://www.brasilemb.org./ Brazilian Embassy in Washington. Here you will find a wide-range of information on Brazil and the activities of the Brazilian Embassy in the United States, as well as links to Brazilian institutions.

Amazon Research Programs

http://lba-ecology.gsfc.nasa.gov/lbaeco/

http://www-as.harvard.edu/chemistry/brazil/index.html These Web sites deals exclusively with the LBA-Ecology component of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. Other LBA issues of general interest to LBA-Ecology participants may are linked and introduced. LBA is an international research initiative led by Brazil, focusing on how changes in land use and climate will affect the chemical, biological, and physical functions of the amazon region and the global climate. This project will quantify the net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and water in a primary forest site, defining the net source or sink of CO2 from the undisturbed forest.

http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/amazon/imagebrowser/ The Global Rainforest Mapping project (GRFM) by the Japanese JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was begun in mid-1995. This project seeks to map the worlds rainforest regions to high resolution by using this Earth-orbiting SAR. By mapping these regions during a single season, a number of interesting scientific questions may be answered.

http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/brazil/bzusaid5.html The Sustainable Forest Management Project provides baseline biological and socioecconomic information underlying the development of advanced forest management strategies, providing assistance with institution building and analysis for silviculture, environmental conservation, and ecotourism.

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/spatial/ecuador.htm This research project combines social science survey methods with environmental modeling and landscape ecology to seek a better understanding of land use/land cover (LULC), land use/land cover change (LULCC) dynamics and the forces influencing deforestation and agricultural practices.