LINKS

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This section of the website contains information and links with organizations involved in conservation and environmental management. It also provides those interested in academic programs in the field of conservation with choice information.

• United Nations Environmental Protection (UNEP)\
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)
• Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Birdlife International
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

Also some nations of the world have gone as far as forming treaties that bind the conservation of resources such as:

• ·        Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• ·   African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Maputo Convention)
• ·        Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
• ·        World Heritage Convention (WHC)
• ·        Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Flora and Fauna) CITES
• ·        International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA)
• ·        Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora
• ·        The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
• ·        Convention on Biological Diversity
• ·        International Plant Protection Convention
• ·        Agreement Concerning Co-operation in the Quarantine of Plants and Their Protection Against Pests and Diseases
• ·        Convention for the Establishment Of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
• ·        Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific
• ·        International Convention for the Protection of Birds
• ·        Ramsar Convention (on Wetlands)
• ·        Convention of the African Locust Organization
• ·        United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• ·        United Nations Convention  on the law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
• ·        Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for the certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in International Trade
• ·        Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the ozone layer
• ·        Basel convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous wastes and their Diposal
• ·        Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United nations (FAO)
• ·        Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention)