VEGETATIONS OF THE WORLD

VEGETATIONS OF THE WORLD

VEGETATIONS OF THE WORLD is part of an integrated webdomain system that together make up NATURE WORLDWIDE, the official website of the World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE. It is the heart of an seamlessly integrated network of non-profit web sites that cause you to jump from one domain to the other, without change of format. The navigation bar on your left will help you find your way through the system.

NATURE WORLDWIDE deals with different topics on nature, the conservation of nature, natural resources management and most and for all, on nature and national parks and protected areas:

Pages for all countries of the world over 20,000 km2 of terrestrial area;

National checklists of all the species of birds and mammals, of the world;

Most national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas of the world, where known, with

travel information on how to get there and where to stay;

Special theme pages deal with topics that we consider of great importance:

Management of national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas,
ecosystem and biodiversity mapping,
biodiversity monitoring, applicable
geographical information systems (GIS) for biologists and natural resources managers;
integral water management.

A roadmap to these different themes is given on our general natural resources management page or you can follow the links from our navigation bar on the left side of this page or our site map.

You will find for downloading state of the art tools for all of your natural resources management needs:

ILWIS, the most comprehensive vector + raster GIS in the world for a mere €100;

The world's most comprehensive stand-alone ecosystems and protected areas monitoring database with manuals and field forms in various languages;

The latest and most comprehensive protected areas analysis book with the famous MICOSYS analysis programme;

The world's best region-size ecosytems map of the tropics downloadable as a shapefile;

The Land Cover Classification System, LCCS classification tool.

All tools are supported by thoroughly prepared scientific manuals prepared by some of the world most renowned ecologists and natural resources management specialists. All tools have been prepared in collaborate agreements (like joint financing or technical contributions) of the World Bank, UNDP, GEF, FAO, IUCN/WCPA.

Enjoy your visit at our site!

This site still is being built.

WHAT'S NEW

February

January

Fabulous packing lists for travelers for different kinds of destinations (jungle, mountains, beach, cities, etc.) and travel types (car, plane, back packing, etc.)

Forum entry on travel info, like countless phone numbers and links to airlines, great booking sites, etc, for several countries

Album entry on the forum where you can upload species of birds, plants, mammals etc. that you want identified.

We made a page on essentials for simple hand-held GPS

December

Dialogue on traditional medicines and nature conservation

New countries: Cape Verde, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea Sao Tome & Principe; Seychelles

Birdlists of all West African countries updates

Birdlists of all East African countries updates

November

WICE analyses the conservation status of the Godwit for the World Bank: Wintering grounds of entire population will disappear in Guinea Bissau. Read more.......

Run ILWIS on Linux. Read more...

Nature Worldwide forums heavily spammed and cleaned. Read more......

ILWIS downloads from ILWIS.ORG since initiation surpassed 10.000!

Collaboration with Bo Beolens' famous fatbirder website

New tables for all major countries in South America

Adopt a Ranger under attack of major check scam! Read more........

The new ILWIS 3.5 is out

April

Updated GIS software review on GIS4BIOLOGISTS

Posting on Natuurlijke Procesgang in de Oostvaarders Plassen (in Dutch)

Posting on effect to oxygen production and carbon fixation by trees and forests

A downloadable pdf with the text of the entire Adopt A Ranger website

A completely renewed computer software and service page with lots of free software

Unsere Deutsche übersetzung von Adopt A Ranger macht gute Vortschritte

March

The data on protected areas have been re-loaded

Updated review of essential and free software

US Government kills Yellowstone National Park bisons or buffaloes

February

"Slaughtering of Seals in Namibia": Take a look at a long ignored nature management issue

Updated info on free satellite images as well as a great new viewer tool on gis4biologists

Test if your web connection is fast enough for free internet phone calls. Minimum requirement is about 1 mbps. This broadband speed test has been created by AuditMyPC

Nature Worldwide webnet is spread over about 20 websites with different domains per theme visited by half a million visits per year! Click for our real visitation statistics

Nature Worldwide / Birdlist and Fatbirder collaborate closely. We provide the best bird lists on the net and fatbirder of Bo Beolens provides all sorts of background and travel information through weblinks.

These are our recently renamed and added webpages:

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