UK Focal Point on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing

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Links to related sites

United Kingdom

• UK Biodiversity Action Plan: http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/biodiversity/action-uk/ukbap.htm
• Research reports, recent publications and consultations and current research and contract management of Scientific Advisers' Unit http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/ewd/ewd15.htm
• European Wildlife Division Newsletters http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/ewd/ewd17.htm
• Global Wildlife Division - listing the work of the Division, including contact and e-mail enquiry information. http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/gwd/index.htm
• Natural England http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/
• Joint Nature Conservation Committee http://www.jncc.gov.uk/
• Naturenet –information on practical nature conservation and countryside management http://www.naturenet.net
• Institute of Terrestrial Ecology http://www.ceh.ac.uk
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency http://www.sepa.org.uk
• The Woodland Trust http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/
• Butterfly Conservation http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/
• The Wildfowl & Wetland Trust http://www.wwt.org.uk/
• The Environment Agency http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
• Pan European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/ewd/ewd12.htm

International

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) http://www.biodiv.org/
• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) http://www.fao.org/
• Framework Convention on Climate Change http://www.unfcc.org/
• Convention on Wetlands http://www.ramsar.org
• Convention to Combat Desertification http://www.unccd.int/main.php
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora – CITES http://www.cites.org
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre http://www.wcmc.org.uk