Environmental and Wildlife Organizations of the Southwest Region

  1. ABSEARCH, Inc. Databases of abstracts and full citations for Wildlife, Ecology, Fisheries, Ornithology, Mammalogy, Zoology, Conservation Biology, Fire Ecology, Ichthyology, Herpetology, & Natural Resources.
  2. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
  3. American Ornithologists' Union
  4. Animal Legal Defense Fund The country's leading animal rights law organization working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation.
  5. Arizona BASS Federation Home Page
  6. Arizona Conservation Council
    Box 11112, Phoenix, AZ 85601. A council of statewide citizen's organizations representing a broad spectrum of general and specific conservation interests.
  7. Arizona Partners In Flight: An international cooperative program of agencies, organizations, and individuals committed to conserving neotropical migratory birds. Arizona Partners In Flight is a sub-group of this international program, . Its goal is to maintain healthy populations of neotropical migratory birds and their habitats in Arizona and adjacent lands in Mexico, through cooperative projects. This site is maintained by the U.S.G.S. Biological Resources Division Colorado Plateau Field Station at Northern Arizona University, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  8. Arizona Wildlife Federation The goals of t he Arizona Wildlife Federation include maintenance of the Arizona Game and Fish Department as a politically independent agency with the necessary regulatory powers, technical capability and funds for proper management of Arizona's wildlife resources. To seek constructive legislation dealing with conservation of natural resources, the protection of the rights of Arizona outsdoorspersons, and the improvement of outdoor recreation. And, to defeat legislation which appears detrimental to the natural resources or the public interest.
  9. Association of Field Ornithologists, Inc.
  10. BIOSIS, a not-for-profit organization, has collected and organized one of the world's largest collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature.
  11. Birdnet, by the Ornithological Council, a public information organization founded by seven North American Professional Ornithological Societies
  12. Birds of Prey Foundation
  13. Birds of the Continental United States and Canada
  14. Center for Environmental Law The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to bring the energy and experience of the U.S. public interest environmental movement to strengthen and develop international and comparative environmental law, policy, and management around the world.
  15. Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
  16. Environmental Defense Fund studies a broad range of regional, national and international environmental issues. In recent years EDF has become a leading advocate of economic incentives as a new approach to solving environmental problems.
  17. Forest Guardians is leading the movement to protect and restore the forests, rivers, grasslands and wilderness of the Southwest.
  18. Grand Canyon Trust is dedicated to the conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the Colorado Plateau. The Trust’s Utah office emphasizes issues related to Southern Utah.
  19. Horticultural & Plant Societies
  20. National Wildlife Federation is the nation's largest member-supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, businesses and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment.
  21. Native American Fish and Wildlife Society
  22. Native Plant Society of Texas
  23. Natural Heritage Institute programs gather standardized data on endangered plants, animals and ecosystems.
  24. Natural Heritage Programs maintain databases on the plants, animals, and ecosystems that occur within their political jurisdiction. The Nature Conservancy's central scientific databases and the state natural heritage programs together contain a catalogue of all the vertebrate animals and vascular plants known from North America, plus many species on invertebrate animals and nonvascular plants.
  25. Natural Resources Defense Council
  26. Nature Conservancy, Arizona Chapter The Nature Conservancy operates the largest private system of nature sanctuaries in the world--more than 1,500 preserves in the United States alone. All of them safeguard imperiled species of plants and animals.
  27. Navajo Nation Natural Heritage Program
  28. New Mexico Wildlife Association The New Mexico Wildlife Association manages Wildlife West, a wildlife nature park, located nineteen miles east of Albuquerque and 50 miles south of Santa Fe in southern Santa Fe county. It is dedicated to the preservation of native New Mexico wildlife and its habitat through education, scientific research, and the sponsorship of a wildlife park.
  29. Oklahoma Wildlife Federation, 3900 North Santa Fe Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK, 73118, Phone (405)-524-7009; FAX (405)-521-9270
  30. The Orion Society is an environmental education organization, and a communications and support network for grassroots environmental and community organizations across the U.S.
  31. Project Vireo, Bird slides of approximately 5000 species of birds from the Academy of Natural Sciences.
  32. Raptor Research Foundation, Inc.
  33. Rocky Mountain Environmental Directory
  34. The Rincon Institute: 7290 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite M, Tucson, AZ 85710; 520-290-0828, Fax: 520-290-0969 ; Email: Contact: Mark Briggs; The Rincon Institute is a nonprofit conservation organization whose mission is to protect the natural resources of the Saguaro National Park and adjoining lands
  35. The Sierra Club is a nonprofit member-supported,public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.
  36. Society for Conservation Biology (Rice University) is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity.
  37. Society for Conservation Biology is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biological diversity
  38. Southern Plains Environmental Directory
  39. Southwest Center for Biological Diversity Biodiversity activists in the Southwest who combine conservation biology with legal strategies.
  40. Texas Reptile Links, maintained by the Texas Reptile Connection
  41. Texas Environmental Center is a non-profit organization extending environmental information through modern technologies.
  42. Texas Wildlife Assocation
  43. Trout Unlimited, Arizona Chapters 4001 N. 3rd St. #400, Phoenix AZ 85012, (602) 264-5840 (Carm Moehle). Chapters in Greer, Lees Ferry, Phoenix, and Tucson. International organization formed to preserve, protect and enhance the cold water resource.
  44. Western Environmental Law Center specializes in environmental law enforcement, working with grassroots citizen groups and Native American tribes to implement the nation's environmental laws.
  45. World Wildlife Fund
  46. Wildlife Society is dedicated to sustainable management of wildlife resources and their habitats. (Arizona Chapter: Richard G. Miller, 1200 Shallenburger, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, (520)774-5046.) Texas Chapter.)
  47. Wildlife Website Directory: Amphibians, Badgers, Bats, Birds, Bears, Dolphins, Elephants, Felines, Fishes, Foxes, General Endangered Species, General Hoofed Animals, General Marine Mammals, Insects, Orca, Otters, Primates, Reptiles, Rodents, Rhino, Tortoises, Urban Wildlife, Waterfowl, Whales, Wild Dogs, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wolves.

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