The BPSP aims to strengthen the capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity. The web site provides an overview of the programme activities: information, tools, training, and communication.

Information, official documents and reports (mainly in French) related to the biological diversity of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Information related to the biological diversity of Burkina Faso and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Offical documents and reports, information on research, parks, animals, plants, actors in biodiversity, and links.

The CBD is a global, comprehensive agreement addressing all aspects of biological diversity: genetic resources, species, and ecosystems. Primary site for information, implementation, reports, documents and links.

CITES is an international treaty drawn up in 1973 to protect wildlife against over-exploitation, and to prevent international trade from threatening species with extinction. Web site includes text of the convention, publications, research programs, databases of CITES-listed flora and fauna.

The Past, Present and Future of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Edited by Jon Hutton and Barnabas Dickson. Published online by ResourceAfrica.

Chapters:
1. CITES: The Vision
2. CITES and the Causes of Extinction
3. When CITES Works and When it Does Not
4. Precaution at the Heart of CITES?
5. The Significant Trade Process: Making Appendix II Work
6. Who Knows Best? Controversy over Unilateral Stricter Domestic Measures
7. Assessing CITES: Four Case Studies
8. Conservation of the Nile Crocodile: Has CITES Helped or Hindered?
9. Are All Species Equal? A Comparative Assessment
10. Zimbabwe and CITES: Influencing the International Regime
11. CITES and the CBD
12. Developing CITES: Making the Convention Work for all of the Parties
13. Decentralization, Tenure and Sustainable Use
14. Global Regulation and Communal Management
15. The Lesson from Mahenye

A capacity building programme for the implementation of environmental information management tools to assist in implementing legal instruments related to the environment in Africa (desertification, biodiversity, climate change, wetlands) based on new information and communication technologies.

Includes text of environmental legal instruments, training modules (in PDF format), portals for West Africa, Benin, Mali, Senegal, Uganda, North Africa, Morocco.

ECDPM aims to improve international cooperation between Europe and countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP). It does this through capacity building for policy management, the promotion of policy dialogue between ACP countries and Europe, and the provision of information and facilities for knowledge exchange. Its main focus is trade.

The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) site contains news, publications, information, calendars and links related to international trade, environment and sustainable development. The Africa section has resource materials and publications designed to strengthen policy-making institutions and processes in the context of trade and sustainable development.

The web site focuses on the kinds of processes and conditions required to make NSSDs work in practice. It reviews experience with nssds, and other strategies for environment and development, in a number of developing countries on the basis of consultations with a range of stakeholders. Resources available include practical guidelines for national sustainable planning; country specific reference material and working plans; and key reference materials, either as full text or as abstracts, on national strategies for sustainable development, indicators and details of international agreements.

The PANOS media briefing "People and Parks: Wildlife, conservation and communities" gives an overview of conservation and sustainable use issues, citing CAMPFIRE as one of the case studies. It was written in the run up to the 1997 meeting of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, in which the ivory trade ban was partly lifted for certain southern African countries.

An intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. The site contains news on the convention and conferences of the parties, key documents and The Wise Use Resource Centre, which provides assistance for wetland managers.

Wildlife trade monitoring program of the World Wildlife Fund/IUCN which aims to help ensure that wildlife trade is at sustainable levels and in accordance with domestic and international laws and agreements. This is achieved through the investigation, monitoring and reporting of such trade.

The information contained in this website is based on the national reports that member states have submitted to the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) throughout the years. Resources available on the site include: Annual National Reports that countries prepare on the status of their implementation of Agenda 21 by CSD key themes of each year; 2002 Country Profiles, providing an overview of the implementation of Agenda 21 at the country level on a chapter-by-chapter or issue basis; and a Report on Trends in National Implementation.