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AgRoots TV
AgRootsTV aims to inform consumers about the sustainable environment that is the source of our food. Through these videos, farmers from all over North America give you a glimpse into their farms, showing you responsible farming practices.


Animal Health for the Environment and Development (AHEAD)
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), IUCN Veterinary Specialists Group (VSG), and other partners helped to start AHEAD in recognition of the importance of animal health to both conservation and development interests. Around the world, domestic and wild animals are coming into ever-more-intimate contact, as we all of course know, and without adequate scientific knowledge and planning, the consequences can be detrimental on one or both sides of the proverbial fence.

Biocultural Diversity Learning Network
The GDF Biocultural Diversity Learning Network (BDLN) aims to fulfill the desire of people from communities around the world to acquire and develop tools of research and teaching. It brings together innovative colleagues from diverse backgrounds and institutions to exchange ideas, launch new courses and research methods, and contribute to an Online Learning Guide on Biocultural Diversity. Through this network we explore the basic steps needed to ensure appropriate research and education continue while intellectual property and genetic resources are protected.


Biodiversity Economics
This site, managed by the IUCN, is a valuable source of extensive information on the economics of biodiversity conservation.  There are a range of papers and analyses and additional links available through this site.


CASS/PLAAS CBNRM Research and Networking Programme
The CASS/PLAAS CBNRM Research and Networking programme is a regional collaborative effort between the Applied Social Sciences (CASS), of the University of Zimbabwe and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), at the University of Western Cape. Its core activities are primary research into CBNRM issues and networking for the exchange of experiences and insights so as to contribute to poverty reduction and the enhancement of sustainable rural livelihoods in Southern Africa.


CBNRM Net
The Community-based Natural Resource Management Network is an online database for CBNRM issues, publications, and other information resources. 


Center for Land-Based Learning
The Center for Land-Based Learning engages youth in learning experiences on the land, ensuring that they develop an understanding for th ecritical interplay of agriculture, nature, and community.


Consortium for Wildlife Enterprise
The new Consortium for Wildlife-Friendly Enterprise is a global initiative to link farmers, livestock producers and harvesters balancing economic activities with conservation of wildlife and habitats.


Help Your Habitat

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and Sand County Foundation want to help you restore wildlife habitat on your land. This voluntary program works with private landowners, one-on-one, to restore wildlife habitat on working farms, forests and recreation land as a part of an effort to promote the habitat of the Karner blue butterfly and other wildlife. This website tells you how to get involved.



Landscope America

NatureServe and the National Geographic Society have embarked on a long-term initiative to develop the premier online conservation and educational resource for the land-protection community and the public. The result, we hope, will both inform and inspire conservation of America’s incomparable lands and waters.



New Zealand fisheries tour

During March 2006, University of California Marine Fisheries Specialist Christopher Dewees organized a study tour to New Zealand for 20 fishing community leaders from the United States. The purpose of this site is to share the experience of those 20 tour participants with a broader audience interested in learning more about New Zealand marine fisheries management. The tour was partially sponsored by Sand County Foundation's Bradley Fund for the Environment.



Private Landowner Network
The Private Landowner network is a project of the Resources First Foundation to develop an Internet based resource to facilitate and encourage private landowner conservation endeavors.


Sand County Foundation's YouTube Channel
Sand County Foundation's YouTube channel helps to showcase the tremendous conservation work private landowners are doing in North Amerca and in Africa.


The Aldo Leopold Archives
The Aldo Leopold Archives house the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948.


USDA Ecosystem Services

The US Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is exploring national opportunities to advance markets and payments for ecosystem services. With help from partners and others, they encourage broader thinking and collaboration that stimulates market-based conservation and stewardship.



Sand County Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Discovery Farms, and Dane County, Wisconsin farmer, John Waddell, discuss the value of cover crops as part of the Foundation's Agricultureal Incentives Program. Watch the video.