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A web·guide to the glocal environment

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Contents of this page:

     · Conventions

       · International organizations

         · Initiatives

           ⇒ North America

             ⇒ Latin America

               ⇒ Caribbean

                 ⇒ South America

Conventions

1940 Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere

     Overview @ Ecolex

     Text & Annexes in USGPO print @ Google Books

     Text @ OAS

     Text @ Library of Congress

     Text @ USFWS

     Entry in the Encyclopedia of the New American Nation

     Revitalizing a forgotten treaty on nature protection


International organizations

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Organization of American States (OAS)

     Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI)

          Department of Sustainable Development (DSD)


Initiatives

Americas Program

Center for the Study of the First Americans

Eco-Index

Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the Americas @ Birdlife International

          · Bird Studies Canada

          · Canadian Nature Federation

          · National Audubon Society

          · CONABIO site

Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative

     · OAS pages:

          · WHMSI

          · WHMSI      

      · CMS page

     · As of July 27, 2017, the WHMSI page at USFS was no longer available; the initiative seems to have run its course.


Western Hemisphere