Useful Links

Red List Index Project

Kew Sampled Red List Index Project page

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 

Red List Index - Wikipedia

Red Listing - General

IUCN Red List

King's College Geodata portal - new datasets making use of Google Earth/maps, in particular RALUCIAPA, Conservation-Eye and Terrascope

WWF - Terrestrial Ecoregions

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Natureserve

ILDIS - International Legume Database and Information Service

The Human Footprint - Wildlife Conservation Society

Indian plant species
- database of 930 indian plant species that are traded for their
medicinal properties, but which are also of conservation concern

BGCI IUCN assessment website
- searches both the 2006 IUCN database and the 1997 database (no need
to check in the 1997 Red List book - but check most recent IUCN
database as it comes online)

Global Forest Watch - Interactive maps
- useful for species in Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Cameroon, Canada,
Central Africa, Congo, Indonesia, Russia or Venezuela, detailed maps
with GIS layers relating to forests, some of the data can be downloaded

ZipcodeZoo

Pakistan Red List

Spanish Red List

The Encyclopedia of Earth Descriptions about ecoregions and threats to them

Wetlands International The Ramsar Information Service (RSIS) provides access to information on wetlands designated as internationally important under the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, 1971).

Forum Crop Wild Relative Information System CWRIS is an online information management system specifically designed to facilitate CWR conservation and use. From this page, you can browse or search the PGR Forum CWR
Catalogue for Europe and the Mediterranean or view the PGR Forum CWR case
studies by following the links.

FAO Grassland Index

ICARDA International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Plants for a Future A resource and information centre for  edible and otherwise useful plants

Specimen databasing and georeferencing

Encarta Atlas

GBIF data portal

Wiktionary - type a word in and get the translation in several languages 

Specimen data - for Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname plus georeferencing information

BG-Base - searches 28 herbaria

Specimen data for southern Costa Rica - ZOBODAT, Austria - Costa Rican specimens from the Tropenstation, Piedras Blancas National Park, Puntarenas

National Herbarium of Colombia online collections - currently approx 25% of the collections are online, can search by genus/species/collector/types

Mexican (and USA/Costa Rica/Peru) specimen data - links for all the herbaria in
Mexico, also in southern USA, such as Texas etc. Access all their databases at the bottom of the page -
"Access to the information", and output as comma delimited is great for copying and
pasting into wordpad and then adding to excel  to convert
the degrees to decimals and adding to ArcMap

University of Reading Herbarium Specimens Online - great for Phanerogams: Europe, especially Great Britain and Ireland, the Iberian
Peninsula, North Africa (especially Morocco), Macaronesia, the Middle
East, cool temperate South America; Pteridophytes: worldwide;
Bryophytes: worldwide; Lichens: Europe, especially Great Britain and
Ireland, Morocco. Also has a Mediterranean Plants Identification and Distribution Link.

Database of Valencian flora (Spain) with mapping - click on "Buscador" to add genus/species name. Then Buscar and then on
the various symbols to see distribution maps, Legal status (E. legal -
i.e. in IUCN, habitat directives), photos etc.

Anthos - information on Spanish plants, with maps

ispecies - might be useful for assessments

Taxonomic, geographic, economic botany, germplasm information, utilisation, distribution and evaluation data


Websites on botanist handwriting

Auxilium - website with examples of botanists handwriting

Chirographum historicum - handwriting of collectors

Handwritings - sample handwriting of botanist from labels and letters