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Aable John's Growing List of Tree Links.
The links on this page are included without endorsement. Aable John's Tree Service, Inc. has no affiliation or interest in the sites listed
on this page, except that we are a member of the National Arborist Association.
If you have a site you would like to be linked here, and particularly if you would like to cross-link with us, please email us with your request. We want to have your input -- help us create the most comprehensive and useful tree care/tree services site in all of Atlanta!
General Tree Care Sites.
Tree Pests.
Tree Education Online.
- Online Course: Forestry 101. -- About.com, one of the sites on the web that has some of everything, has compiled an online course: Forestry 101. If this sounds interesting to you, by all means, sign up and learn.
- Online Course: Tree Identification 101. -- About.com also has a beginner's course on tree identification. This sounds like a good one to us.
Tree Identification.
Tree Periodicals and Papers.
- ArborAge Magazine: News from the World of Trees. -- published by Green Media Online.
- American Forests Magazine. -- News from the World of Trees
- EcoIQ Magazine. -- After publishing fourteen issues as a quarterly, EcoIQ Magazine has converted its format to become a continuously updated online journal. The quarterly issues are available on the left below. At the same time, the articles included in these quarterly issues are available by topic on the right below. Finally, each section of EcoIQ Magazine has been archived independently, and these are listed and linked at the bottom of this page.
- Arborist News. -- Issues are published bimonthly and can be purchased through ISA via phone (217) 355-9411 or email: isa@isa-arbor.com
- Tree Farmer Magazine. -- The Tree Farmer Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine created by Tree Farmers for Tree Farmers. It is a landowners's guide to practical forestry techniques. Your subscription will keep you connected to Tree Farm System updates and vital information affecting your land – laws, legislation, sustainable certification, and tax changes. Tree Farmers make up our editorial board. Tree Farmers tell us what stories they want to read and what they need to know. Tree Farmer: The Practical Guide to Sustainable Forestry is the necessary tool for all forest owners who practice sustainable forest management...Subscribe today so you don't miss any news on taxes, wildlife management, tools, techniques, woodland security, field days, the national convention, certification and workshops.
Non-Profit Tree Care Organizations.
Bringing Trees and Natural Space Back Into Our Cities.
Rain Forest Preservation, Conservation and the Environment.
- Rainforest Action Network -- A non-profit grass-roots organization founded in 1985 working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests; a great visual site with lots of information and graphics
- Amanaka'a Amazon Network -- A (501)(c)(3) nonprofit environmental education organization.with a simple mission: to support the peoples of the Amazon Rainforest in their efforts to live and work in harmony with their environment.
- APECA, Inc. -- The Association Promoting Education and Conservation of the Amazon is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the Peruvian Amazon rain forest, its native peoples and their cultures. Founded in 1993, APECA began as a floating health clinic, delivering medical services to the remote Amazon river villages of Loreto, Peru. Since then, APECA has established programs in health education, nutrition, sanitation and natural medicine.
- Amazon Watch -- Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil & gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.
- The Rainforest Alliance -- An international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests which has a great informative website on rainforests and conservation.
- Conservation International -- A nonprofit organization using science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in rainforests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide.
- Cultural Survival -- A non-profit organization founded in 1972 to defend the human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous peoples and oppressed ethnic minorities.
- Trees for the Future -- A non-profit, people-to-people, action program initiating environmental projects around the world.
- CEIBA Foundation for Tropical Conservation -- A 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to promote the conservation of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity in the American tropics. They are currently are working to establish a locally-run orchid reserve in Ecuador and offer tropical ecology field courses to U.S. college students.
- Eco-Portal -- Full Text Searches of Reviewed Environmental Internet Content. There are indexed databases for rainforests, temperate forests, general forest conservation, biodiversity and other environmental topics.
- World Rainforest Movement -- A global network of citizens' groups of
North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement and other projects that threaten them.
- Amazon Conservation Team -- Headed by renowned ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin, this non-profit organization develops and implements new conservation strategies that combine indigenous knowledge with Western science. They work in Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, and Mexico, where each project is managed in partnership with indigenous communities sharing knowledge and experience at a grassroots level.
- The Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment -- An
initiative born out of the alliance between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their
concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. The eighty non-governmental organizations from the North and the South active in
the Coalition believe that the future of the Amazon depends on its indigenous and traditional peoples and the state of their environment.
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park -- Situated in the north of the Republic of Congo's rainforest, the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park was created in 1993 by the Congolese government and Wildlife Conservation Society to conserve the forests of northern Congo. NNNP recently became one of the only National Park's in Africa to launch its own website
- The Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation -- This Peruvian non-profit provides environmental education programs for Peruvian students and teachers, supports basic and applied research relevant to rainforest ecology, acquires threatened tracts of primary rainforest land, and sponsors rainforest ecology workshops in the Amazon.
Databases, News, Research & Information on Rainforests and Preservation Efforts.
- World Resources Institute's Forest Resouces Page -- A great site for information and links on rainforests and forest resources, data, preservation and organizations.
- Andean Botanical Information System -- The Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS) presents information from floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants
(phanerogams) of Andean South America. Topics include selected geographic regions and groups of Andean plants, flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories from a variety of habitats in northern Peru, bibliographic resources, and searchable databases.
- Center For World Indigenous Studies A research and education non-profit organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples.
- The Tropenbos Foundation Displays information on the current research activities of the Tropenbos Foundation at its permanent research sites in the rainforests of Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Guyana and Kalimantan, Indonesia. Additionally other useful scientific information is given (among others the list of publications of the Tropenbos Foundation).
- The ETFRN website Gives general information on ETFRN, and contains a calender of meetings in the field of tropical forest research. It also links through to the ETFRN National Nodes, other organizations and databases relevant for tropical forest research. ETFRN aims to provide a European local point to contribute to the improvement of information exchange in tropical forest research activities at the international level.
- EnviroLink NetworkA non-profit organization and grassroots online ommunity that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in over 130 countries focusing on evironmental issues.
- The World Conservation Monitoring Centre -- provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
- TROPICOS
-- Searchable database of the Missouri Botanical Garden's tropical plants.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Home Page with a great deal of information on the research and documentation on Rainforest plants cataloged by the Royal Botanic Gardens
- The People and Plants Initiative -- Created by WWF International, UNESCO and the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1992 to carry out applied research projects, community workshops, exchanges and training courses with young ethnobotanists from developing countries who are interested in conservation and community development.
- Species 2000 -- Has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity. Users worldwide can verify the scientific name, status and classification of any known species via the Species Locator on this homepage.
Other Rainforest Related Sites.
- Rainforest Ventures -- Specializes in natural history tours to the Peruvian Amazon. Co-founders Steve Timme and Jim Castner combine their tropical expertise with other faculty leaders and native Peruvian guides to present a comprehensive program. Their website has a photo gallery of rainforest pictures, plants, and insects.
- The Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting -- An art school devoted to the rescue and preservation of the knowledge and the traditions of the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.
- Rainforest Medical Foundation (RMF) -- was established in 1991 by a group of physicians in the Netherlands, who realized that the loss of the rainforest is also an enormous loss of
resources for both western and non-western medicine. RMF inventories rainforest medicinal plants, develops and promotes rainforest medicines which stimulates further development, and sees to it that the local population also benefits. Good website with an annual report that gives some good information and published papers.
- Plantas do Nordeste -- Plantas do Nordeste (PNE) is an Anglo-Brazilian collaborative, interdisciplinary research and information dissemination programme that has been running since
1992 in the semi-arid Northeastern region of Brazil. The programme aims to promote the sustainable use of the plants of the region for the benefit of local communities. It's guiding theme is "local plants for local people."
- Journey through the Costa Rican Rainforest -- Trip journal of Sandy Wiseman,a forensic and educational psychologist, conservationist, photographer, and director of Conservation International - Canada.
- Environmental Organization WebDirectory -- Online directory and search engine of organizations on the Web involved with the environment.
- A Walkabout In The Rio Platano Biosphere , La Mosquitia Honduras -- This web page is a result of an on going multi-year photo documentary project, focusing on indigenous cultures of the Mosquitia Rain Forests Paya, Miskito and Garifuna.
- FRIENDS OF CELAQUE -- Was set up by a group of concerned individuals in order to gain world attention and focus it on the destruction of the Celaque Cloud Forest in Honduras
- Personal Home Page from Brazilian, Orlando Ferreira Lemos Jr. -- A great home page with really good facts, statistics and pictures of the Amazon rainforest. REALLY slow to load but the pictures and accurate data are worth the wait.
- NativeWeb -- A collective project of many people, embraces ancient teachings and modern technology and provide a cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples.
Arboreal Organizations & Educational / Research Sites.
There are obviously a great many comprehensive sites that focus on arboricultural information. Here are just a few:
Professional Web Development Services
These sites offer other professional services.
Tree Appraisal.
Unusual Tree Links.
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