The Australian National Botanic Gardens, jointly with the Australian National Herbarium, manages a large collection of photographs and other illustrations of its activities and Australian botany. The bulk of the collection consists of identified Australian plant species, but there is also a large number of environmental and conservation images.
Botanicus is a freely accessible, web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Author, title, date and subject browsing options are available.
BGCI is an international organisation that exists to ensure the world-wide conservation of threatened plants, the continued existence of which are intrinsically linked to global issues including poverty, human well-being and climate change.
CITES is an international agreement between Governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Today, it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 30,000 species of animals and plants. It originated with IUCN.
At the core of IUCN’s work is the conservation of biodiversity. IUCN have identified four challenges to this process: climate change, energy, livelihoods and economics.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species
UNEP lists six priorities in their focus on the environment: climate change; disasters and conflicts; ecosystem management; environmental governance; harmful substances and resource efficiency.
UPS is committed to the protection of native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come. UPS also publishes a list of wild medicinal plants which are at risk because of the impact of human activities
Weather and climate affect the key determinants of human health: air, food and water. They also influence the frequency of heatwaves, floods and storms as well as the transmission of infectious diseases. In addition, policies to mitigate climate change (for example in the energy, transport or urban planning sectors) have a direct and important influence on health, for example through effects on local air pollution, physical activity, or road traffic injuries.