A great site for images and/or
video clips, ARKive: http://www.arkive.org
Barcoding Life Initiative: http://www.barcodinglife.org
Biodiversity Hotspots (Conservation International): http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org
Bushmeat Crisis Task Force: http://www.bushmeat.org
Consortium for Conservation Medicine: http://www.conservationmedicine.org
Convention on Biological Diversity (UNEP): http://www.biodiv.org
Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species: http://www.cites.org
Education Resources of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/
Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment:
http://chge.med.harvard.edu
The resource for determining if a species is officially considered threatened:
IUCN Red List: http://www.iucnredlist.org
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: http://www.mcz.harvard.edu
Tree of Life Project: http://www.tolweb.org
Wildlife Conservation Society: http://www.wcs.org
World Conservation Union: http://www.iucn.org
Amazon Conservation Team (including ACT for Kids): http://www.amazonteam.org
Biodiversity Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, New York:
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/it_takes_all_kinds
Endangered Species for Kids! Links and books recommended by the
California Academy of Sciences Library:
http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/endangerjuv.htm
Jane Goodall Center for Primate Studies: http://www.discoverchimpanzees.org
Kid’s Corner (U.S. Fish and Wildlife): http://www.fws.gov/endangered/kids/index.html
Kid’s Planet (Defenders of Wildlife): http://www.kidsplanet.org
Lesson Plans on Biodiversity from National Geographic Society’s Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/08/biodiversity.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g68/preserve.html
Project Exploration: http://www.projectexploration.org
Project Frog: http://www.projectexploration.org/projectfrog
Tree of Life Treehouses (National Science Foundation): http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/treehouses.html