NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Local Info: Local Links Tanjong Chek Jawa (P. Ubin) Amphibians of Singapore

2. International Links: Nature Conservation
Environmental 		Education
Scientific & Taxonomic 		Animal Welfare & Rights
Publications
3. My story

Links to Useful Sites
Site Notes Date last visited
MNS Malaysian Nature Society 29 Nov 2003
WWF Malaysia 29 Nov 2003

Environmental
Greenpeace International 3 Aug 2000
Worldwatch Institute 3 Aug 2000
EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2 Jan 2001
A Learning Guide on Marine Debris Resource page by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2 Jan 2001
UNEP United Nations Environmental Programme. 3 Aug 2000

Nature Conservation
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 3 Aug 2000
IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature. 3 Aug 2000
IUCN Red List IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - searchable database. 10 Feb 2001
Sierra Club 3 Aug 2000
Earth First!: The Radical Environmental Journal Radical group which splintered off from Greenpeace and apparently focused on forest conservation issues. 3 Aug 2000
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora. 3 Aug 2000
TRAFFIC 3 Aug 2000
ACAP Asian Conservation Awareness Programme run by WildAid. 23 May 2002
WWF World Wide Fund for Nature. 3 Aug 2000
RAN Rainforest Alliance Network: rainforest protection NGO. 2 Jan 2001
BirdLife International 3 Aug 2000
National Audubon Society American. 2 Jan 2001
Center for Marine Conservation American organization. Also organizer and coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup. 2 Jan 2001
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Group which splintered off from Greenpeace and concentrates on the overexploitation of marine resources. 3 Aug 2000
DAPTF Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force. Established in 1991 by herpetologists in conjunction with the Species Survival Commission of IUCN. Currently based in the Open University, UK. 22 Oct 2000
5 Tigers: The Tiger Information Centre Lots of information and population estimates as well. Aug 2000
OceanNEnvironment Recent Australian organization. 31 Aug 2000

Scientific & Taxonomic
Biosis Standard database for the life sciences literature. Sadly, it not available to amateurs like me. They only sell access to academic libraries. They do have a free Internet resource site BiologyBrowser. 10 Dec 2003
Taxonomy Resources The National Center for Biotechnology Information Taxonomy Homepage is a page of links to taxonomy resources including links to taxonomic databases. 30 Apr 2001
Kingdoms Project Collaboration of the Illinois State Academy of Science, the Illinois State Museum, and the Weizmann Institute of Science to build a classificatory tree of all the kingdoms. 15 Oct 2000
All Species Toolkit Meta search of several species databases that eventually hopes to list every living species. 14 Jan 2003
Tree of Life Attempt by the University of Arizona to compile a evolutionary tree of every living thing. 9 Dec 2003
Species 2000 Attempt to list the scientific names of every living thing. 9 Oct 2000
Classification of Life on Earth This effort is by the Iziko Museums of Cape Town. 9 Dec 2003
Animal Diversity Web Catalogue of animals by the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Some entries with pictures. 29 Nov 2003
Mammal Species of the World Done by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Sept 2000
Sibley-Monroe: A World Checklist of Birds The Sibley and Monroe Classification. Lists all species by family. 26 Sept 2005
Avibase Names of birds in various languages. Some entries has notes regarding species' name status. 26 Sept 2005
Bird Names in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese 26 Sept 2005
OWL Ornithological Worldwide Literature: a database of ornithological literature. 7 Jan 2004
EMBL Reptile Database Maintained by Peter Uetz of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 14 Feb 2001
Amphibian Species of the World Done by the American Museum of Natural History Department of Herpetology. 9 Oct 2000
Amphibiaweb Database with species descriptions. 8 Dec 2003
herpweb.net Malaysian herptiles 1 Jan 2009
FishBase A 'global information system on fish'. 9 Oct 2000
Fisheries Global Information System 25 Mar 2004
Ichthyology Web Resources 9 Oct 2000
World Spider Catalog 14 Jan 2003
Lepidoptera and some other life forms by Finn Markku Savela. 17 Jan 2001
Orthoptera Species File Online 14 Jan 2003
Hymenoptera Name Server 14 Jan 2003
The Diptera Site Flies 14 Jan 2003
Coleoptera Home Page 9 Oct 2000
Termites University of Toronto Faculty of Forestry Urban Entomology Program 9 Oct 2000
Marine Flatworms of the World Personal website of Wolfgang Seifarth. 25 Apr 2003
w3Tropicos Missouri Botanical Gardens VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database - good for finding alternate latin names oof plants or a list of plants in a genus. Listed here since before May 2001. 12 Sep 2004
International Plant Names Index Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. Information is for seed plants only. 30 Apr 2001
Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database Plant names in the different languages. 25 Jan 2005
Vascular Plant Family Access Page By the University of Hawaii Botany Department. 9 Oct 2000
South East Asian Botanical Collections Information Network Catalogues of specimens held in SEA collections. 25 Mar 2007
Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages Listed here since before Feb 2003. 12 Sep 2004
Fruits of Warm Climates Electronic version of book published by Julia Morton. Site found in Sep 2004. 12 Sep 2004
World of Algae By the University of the Western Cape Botany Dept. 22 Jan 2003
Protist Image Data 22 Jan 2003

Educational
Earthwatch Institute Opportunity to holiday doing scientific research. 3 Aug 2000

Publications
Biodiversity Heritage Library 12 May 2007
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Indexes & pdfs of old issues available at http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/ 20 Jan 2005
PLoS The Public Library of Science is an initiative to publish open-access peer-reviewed journals on the Internet. It started publishing PLoS Biology in 2003 and now has 4 biomedical titles. 20 Jan 2005
National Geographic
Asian Geographic 14 Sept 2000
Wetlands A magazine published by Sungei Buloh. 25 Mar 2001

Animal Welfare & Rights
RSPCA The UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 2 Jan 2001
WSPA World Society for the Protection of Animals. 2 Jan 2001
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaigns for full animal rights. 2 Jan 2001
IPPL International Primate Protection League. 2 Jan 2001
WDCS The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society works for the protection of all cetaceans. 2 Jan 2001

Going to Canada to study was the cause of it all. I chose to study Peace Camp for my Sociology Qualitative Methods course. Peace Camp was a protest camp against the Kuwait War parked in the middle of campus. There I got to know a couple of the people in MRI, the McMaster Recycling Inititative and life went downhill from there. MRI later became McMaster Earth Action and after I left, a PIRG (Public Interest Research Group).

My main involvement was with the introduction of recycling to the campus. One of the big jobs was sorting all the paper into the main grades. The waste paper was mostly put into the right bins, but enough mistakes were made that we still had to do some sorting of the paper before it could be sent off.

Then there was the composting project for the residences: we had four or five composters going in my final year and it went well. However, when I went back this summer (98) for a visit, the composters were gone. Wish I knew what happened to them.

Back in Singapore, I joined Nature Society as a life member and used to help occasionally in SEC (Singapore Environment Council).

Currently I'm interested in the flora and fauna of Singapore and their habitats. To help in recognising the thousands of species, I'm working on webpages with the pictures of different species organized taxonomically.

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