Heritage & Environment

Australian Websites


Australia's World heritage Areas
From Environment Australia, Australia. Dept. of the Environment. Includes reports and datasheets for listed areas.
* url: http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/awhg/whu/auswha.html

National Wilderness Inventory (Australia)
* url: http://www.heritage.gov.au/anlr/nwi/handbook.html

State of the Environment Australia
From Environment Australia, Australia. Dept. of the Environment and Heritage includes factsheets, the full-text of the 1996 State of the Environment report for Australia, discussion papers and other environmental indicators for Australia.
Other recent publications on various aspects of the Australian envrionment are also available from this web site. A progress to date report is available for the 2001 report.
* url: http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/

Picture Australia
National Library of Australia web site which brings together images from many significant Australian heritage and cultural collections.
* url: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Register of the National Estate Database
Compiled by the Australian Heritage Council "The Register of the National Estate is Australia's national list of cultural and natural heritage places. The only heritage list that covers the entire country, the Register includes historic places, natural areas and places of importance to indigenous people. There are some 11 500 places in the Register."
* url: http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/register/index.html

Green Pages
Green Pages, the Environmental Data Directory [EDD], stores information about data within the Australian Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories. The Directory is keyword searchable and broad subjects areas are available for browsing.
* url: http://www.environment.gov.au/database/edd/edd.html

World Resources Institute: Facts and Figures.
Provides Country Data Profiles; Environmental Data Tables; Environmental Factoids and Global Trends.
* url: http://www.wri.org/facts/index.html

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International & Overseas Websites


UNESCO World Heritage List
* url: http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm

UNESCO World Heritage Information
* url: http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/home/pages/homepage.htm

World Monuments Fund 100 Most Endangered Sites
* url: http://wmf.org/

State of the World's Forests 2003
FAO report on World's Forests "...presents information on the current status of the world's forests, major developments over the reporting period (1999-2002), and recent trends and future directions in the forestry." sector. Available for downloading in PDF format.
* url: http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=3321&langId=1

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS): Charters and other Instruments
"ICOMOS is an international, non-governmental organization dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. The organization was founded in 1965, as a result of the international adoption of the Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites in Venice the year before. Today the organization has National Committees in over 90 countries."
* url: http://www.international.icomos.org/icomos/e_charte.htm

World Culture Report. Statistical Tables
UNESCO World Culture reports includes an excellent statistical section.
* url: http://www.unesco.org/culture/worldreport/html_eng/tables2.shtml

World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report
"The Living Planet Report seeks to present a quantitative picture of the sate of the world's natural environment and the human pressures upon it. Specifically, it presents WWF's Living Planet Index (LPI), a measure of the change in the health of the world's natural ecosystems since 1970, focusing on the earth's forest, freshwater, and marine biomes as these contain most of the earth's biodiversity."
* url: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/general/livingplanet/index.cfm

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
Search or browse a comprehensive service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators. This database is compiled and maintained by Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
* url: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri

Online Trends a Compendium of Data on Global Change
Compiled by "Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. 2003. Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
* url: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm

World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems
A report by the World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme and The World Bank. Earlier reports are also available from the World Resource Institute website.Reports are available in full-text and in both PDF & HTML formats.
* url: http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_description.cfm?PubID=3027

Guide to Global Environmental Statistics.
Includes Agriculture, Biological Resources, Business, Climate Change, Education, Forests, Health, Global Environmental Statistics, Global Trends, Library/Research, Maps & Indicators & Oceans and Coasts .
* url: http://www.wri.org/statistics/

Global Forest Watch
* url: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

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