Organisations
Relevant organisations and initiatives in Africa
East Africa Links
- African Conservation Centre (ACC)
- African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE)
- Addis Ababa University
- Birdlife Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests Homepage
- British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
- East African Wild Life Society
- Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF)
- Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes (HEEAL)
- International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
- Kasigau Project
- National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
- Nature Kenya
- The Taita Project
- Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG)
- Tanzania GIS User Group (TZGISUG)
- Tanzania Wildlife Corridors
- Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI)
- University of Dar es Salaam
- University of Nairobi
Conservation NGOs
- BirdLife Africa
- Conservation International
- Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF)
- Plantlife International
- TRAFFIC (Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network)
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
- World Wildlife Fund (Eastern and Southern Africa Office)
Research Consortia
- Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
- International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP)
- International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
- Mountain Research Initiative - AfroMont
- Past Global Changes (PAGES)
- Quaternary Research Association
- World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
- World University Network (WUN)
Science-Policy Interface
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD)
Other Useful Links
- Africa Adapt
- Africa Adaption Knowledge Network (AAKNet)
- BIOFRAG Project
- Eldis (gateway to development policy, practice and research documents)
- Future Earth Initiative
- Global Land Project (GLP)
- People, Land and Time in Africa (PLATINA)
- Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (PREDICTS)
- Pro-Poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa (PRESA)
- Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation (ROBIN)
Data
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Software
Freely available software for environmental research
Image Processing
- CAN-EYE (canopy structure imaging software)
Phylogenies
Spatial Analsyis
- Biomapper (species distributions)
- BIOMOD (species distributions, requires R)
- Software notes - CLUE (land use change modelling)
- DIVA-GIS (mapping software)
- Dinamica
- GME (requires R and ArGIS [not free])
- GEOTRANS (coordinate conversion)
- GRASS GIS (mapping software)
- Manuals - ILWIS GIS (mapping software)
- Marxan (conservation planning)
- MaxEnt (species distributions)
- ENMTools - Quantum GIS (mapping software)
- SAM (spatial analysis in macroecology)
- SDSM-DC (climate downscaling)
- SWAT (soil & water assessment tool)
- Water balance verison - Zonation (conservation planning)
Statistics & Programming
- Orwell Dev-C++ (programming environment)
- R Project for Statistical Computing
- Contributed packages
- Devtools (package development)
- Free tutorials
- RStudio (user interface)
- Tinn-R (code editor)