Rainforest Action Network
A non-profit grass-roots organization founded in 1985 working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. A great visual site with lots of information and graphics.

Amanaka'a Amazon Network
A (501)(c)(3) nonprofit environmental education organization.with a simple mission: to support the peoples of the Amazon Rainforest in their efforts to live and work in harmony with their environment.

APECA, Inc.
The Association Promoting Education and Conservation of the Amazon is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the Peruvian Amazon rain forest, its native peoples and their cultures. Founded in 1993, APECA began as a floating health clinic, delivering medical services to the remote Amazon river villages of Loreto, Peru. Since then, APECA has established programs in health education, nutrition, sanitation and natural medicine.

Amazon Watch
Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil & gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

The Rainforest Alliance
An international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests which has a great informative website on rainforests and conservation.

Conservation International
A nonprofit organization using science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in rainforests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide.

Cultural Survival
A non-profit organization founded in 1972 to defend the human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous peoples and oppressed ethnic minorities.

Trees for the Future
A non-profit, people-to-people, action program initiating environmental projects around the world.

CEIBA Foundation for Tropical Conservation
A 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to promote the conservation of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity in the American tropics. They are currently are working to establish a locally-run orchid reserve in Ecuador and offer tropical ecology field courses to U.S. college students.

Eco-Portal
Full Text Searches of Reviewed Environmental Internet Content. There are indexed databases for rainforests, temperate forests, general forest conservation, biodiversity and other environmental topics.

World Rainforest Movement
A global network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and settlement and other projects that threaten them.

Amazon Conservation Team
Headed by renowned ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin, this non-profit organization develops and implements new conservation strategies that combine indigenous knowledge with Western science. They work in Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, and Mexico, where each project is managed in partnership with indigenous communities sharing knowledge and experience at a grassroots level.

The Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment
An initiative born out of the alliance between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples. The eighty non-governmental organizations from the North and the South active in the Coalition believe that the future of the Amazon depends on its indigenous and traditional peoples and the state of their environment.

Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park
Situated in the north of the Republic of Congo's rainforest, the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park was created in 1993 by the Congolese government and Wildlife Conservation Society to conserve the forests of northern Congo. NNNP recently became one of the only National Park's in Africa to launch its own website

The Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation
This Peruvian non-profit provides environmental education programs for Peruvian students and teachers, supports basic and applied research relevant to rainforest ecology, acquires threatened tracts of primary rainforest land, and sponsors rainforest ecology workshops in the Amazon.