Research guides: Forestry: Web Resources

Web Resources

Ecological Internet, Forests.org
Ecological Internet, Inc. is a non-profit organization that specializes in the use of the Internet to achieve conservation outcomes. The website provides vast forest protection news, information retrieval tools and original analysis.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, CTFS
The CTFS is a global network of forests research plots in temperate and tropical forest zones that focuses on forest funtioncs and forest diversity. Use this website for primary resource information, tropical forestry related publications and resources.
Commonwealth Forestry Association
The Commonwealth Forestry Association is the world's longest established international forestry organization, tracing its history back to the founding of the Empire Forestry Association in 1921. Today it unites 1200 members in 78 Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries.
Envirolink Library
A searchable site with links to non-profit organizations involved in forestry issues including deforestation, forest management, old growth and virgin forests. Please note: Username and password necessary to enter the site is given to you when you make the link.
FAO - Forestry
Provides links to its publications such as the State of the World's Forests and Unasylva as well as its databases including the FAOSTAT Database, an on-line and multilingual database containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics.