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Conservation Sites

• Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative
  • Most Purple Martin landlords are well aware that European Starlings and House Sparrows compete strongly for nest compartments, and left unchecked, can severely reduce the productivity of a martin colony. These two non-native species also compete with native species that use natural cavities for nesting, and are implicated in declines of some species like the Red-headed Woodpecker. To learn more about the impact of starlings and house sparrows on native species, The Wisconsin Bird Initiative is conducting the Cavity Nesters Project. Volunteer observers are needed to monitor natural cavities, nest boxes and houses and record interactions between native species and their non-native competitors. This is an excellent opportunity for Purple Martin landlords to help conserve martins and other native species by contributing to scientific knowledge.
• The Environmental News Network (ENN)
  • Award winning producer of environmental news. ENN offers a variety of online services including daily feature stories, a free press release service, environmental news published throughout the day seven days per week, live chats with top environmental authors and panelists, weekly polls and daily streaming webcasts.
• World Wildlife Fund
  • Explore World Wildlife Fund Online to learn more about endangered species like tigers, rhinos, whales, and pandas, the places where they live, threats to their survival, and how WWF is helping to save them. Take action online, shop our site, and download free postcards, screensavers, and fun wildlife stuff for kids and adults
• Earthtrust
  • Here on Earthtrust's extensive web site, you'll find a wealth of information about our innovative and cost-effective programs for protecting some of the world's threatened and endangered species, including whales, dolphins, tigers, rhinos, and many others.
• The Nature Conservancy
  • The Nature Conservancy: Among environmental organizations,we fill a unique niche: preserving habitats and species by buying the lands and waters they need to survive. We invite you to come and explore our website and discover more about The Nature Conservancy.
• The Jane Goodall Institue
  • The Jane Goodall Institute -- The official website for the worldwide Jane Goodall Institute leads visitors on a tour through our global conservation, and environmental education programs; provides a glimpse into the lives of the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park and in our African sanctuaries; and introduces visitors to Jane Goodall -- her childhood, her work, and her current activities. The site also provides multiple opportunities to get involved!
• The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
  • The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International is dedicated to the conservation and protection of the endangered mountain gorilla and its habitat in East Central Africa. We are committed to promoting continued research on this threatened ecosystem and education on its relationship with the world in which we live. In collaboration with government agencies and other international partners, we also provide assistance to the surrounding communities through education, training and economic development initiatives.
• The Sierra Club
  • The home page for the Sierra Club, America's largest and oldest environmental organization. The Sierra Club has over 600,000 members. Our mission statement: Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
• The Peregrine Fund
  • Welcome to The Peregrine Fund, an organization founded in 1970 by Tom Cade who was then a Professor of Ornithology at Cornell University. The Peregrine Fund developed naturally from the shared concern of students and associates that the Peregrine Falcon might go extinct in the wild if nothing was done. Our initial work was to learn how to breed falcons in captivity, with the idea the young could be released in the wild to re-establish the Peregrine in the eastern United States where it was already gone and to bolster the greatly diminished western populations. Our name came from a financial account at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology -- the peregrine fund account. In 1984, we consolidated our Cornell facility and our Ft. Collins, Colorado facility to our current location in Boise, Idaho.
• Earth Share
  • Earth Share, a federation of America's leading non-profit environmental and conservation organizations, works to promote environmental education and charitable giving through workplace giving campaigns. Earth Share is an opportunity, a system, and an answer for environmentally conscious employees and workplaces to support dozens of environmental groups at once through a charitable giving drive.
• Songbird Foundation
  • The Songbird Foundation, promoting shade grown coffee to save songbird habitat.
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
  • Unique in its exclusive focus on migratory birds and its combination of research, education and training, and policy work, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration.
• The Rainforest Alliance
  • The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests for the benefit of the global community. Our mission is to develop and promote economically viable and socially desirable alternatives to the destruction of this endangered, biologically diverse natural resource. We pursue this mission through education, research in the social and natural sciences, and the establishment of cooperative partnerships with businesses, governments, and local peoples.
• CITIZENS UNITED to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc.
  • Citizens United to protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc., Southern New Jersey's leading watershed conservation organization, is a volunteer, non-profit watershed organization dedicated to building stewardship and awareness of the Maurice River and its tributaries.
• A Última Arca de Noé" (The Last Noah's Ark)
  • Brazilian site about ecology, environment, environmental education, biodiversity, animals, birding etc. Portuguese/English. The Last Noah's Ark is a philantropic program of environmental education for life's preservation. Among its developed studies, the most important are ecology and ornithology. In the ornithology part, birding/birdwatching is incentivated by its importance for the species' knowledge, preservation and environmental concious.
• The Sand Martin Trust
  • To conserve the Sand Martin species and to conserve the natural habitats and recreate habitats of the Sand Martin. To advance the education of the public in the ecological requirements of the Sand Martin generally and more particularly in the need for safe breeding sites, and to carry out research necessary for the conservation of the Sand Martin.