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World Intact Forest Landscapes editor's pick

http://www.intactforests.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

Greenpeace map assessing remaining blocks of intact forest landscapes larger than 500 sq. km not fragmented by infrastructure, such as roads, settlements, waterways, pipelines and power lines
Added: Apr. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Biodiversity and Worldmap -- The Natural History Museum popular

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/worldmap/

3 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

develops and applies methods to measure the variety of nature and select priority areas for conservation at many spatial scales
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Landsat NASA Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project popular

http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/

4 out of 10 stars (6 votes)

maps global deforestation in the humid tropics, focusing on the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia
Added: Feb. 04, 2001 | Rate It

Amazonian Indians Native Tribes Photos and Videos

http://www.amazon-indians.org/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides photos, videos and maps of native indigenous people from the cultures of Amazon native tribes from the South American Amazon River Basin
Added: May. 12, 2007 | Rate It

Distribution and Variety of Equatorial Rain Forest, The

http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/rainfo.html

6 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an in depth examination of ecological patterns in rainforests from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Added: Mar. 17, 2001 | Rate It

Global Land Cover Characterization

http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/glcc/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a 1-km resolution global land cover characteristics data base useful for a wide range of environmental research and modeling applications
Added: Feb. 20, 2001 | Rate It

Seamless Data Distribution System

http://seamless.usgs.gov/

provides free access to internationa and U.S. geospatial data; including land cover, hydrography, orthoimagery and others
Added: Jan. 08, 2005 | Rate It

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html

1 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

interactive maps of the World's ecosystems from National Geographic, including information on 867 land-based ecoregions that are distinguished by shared ecological features, climate, and plant and animal communities
Added: May. 08, 2001 | Rate It


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