Biology, ecology, habitat, and status of rare, threatened and endangered species of mammals and information on their native countries: biodiversity, ecosystems, population, and land use.

Biological diversity: theory, patterns, ecological zones, species distributions, conservation issues, and legislation, with an emphasis on Canada. Bilingual: English/French.

International collaborative project with the goal of providing accurate scientific information and predictive models of the status of biodiversity and sustainability of the use of the Earth's biotic resources, and to build a world-wide capacity for

Supports international conservation activities. Documents on methodology, working with NGOs, governments, communities; news, publications, photo gallery.

Project to provide indexing and links for all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.