Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new windowInspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Chicago Field Museum - Rapid Biological Inventory & Other Topics
- Rapid Biological Inventories in Peru - Chicago Field MuseumThe goal of rapid biological and social inventories is to catalyze effective action for conservation in threatened regions of high biological diversity and uniqueness. See more links below.
- Frogs of Northwestern Amazonia: species of the 25th Rapid InventoryRapid Biological Inventories in Peru, by the Chicago Field Museum
- Useful Links for Neotropical Flowering Plant IdentificationPlant resources, including Peruvian plants
- Peru Botany Expeditions PhotosField Museum botanist J. Francis MacBride participated in two specimen-gathering expeditions to Peru in 1922 and 1923.
Museo Raimondi
- Museo RaimondiMuseo Raimondi was founded in 1981 to preserve the work of Peru's most important natural scientist, Antonio Raimondi.
KU Resource Guides for Biology
Insects in the Amazon
Biological Organizations in Peru
- CORBIDICORBIDI es una asociación sin fines de lucro que agrupa investigadores, conservacionistas y entusiastas de las ciencias naturales, que se han tomado como tarea inventar un modelo diferente de la práctica de las ciencias naturales en el Perú, que ayude a desarrollarlas y a la vez siente las bases sólidas para practicar la conservación.
- LA SOCIEDAD ENTOMOLOGICA DEL PERU, SEPSociedad Entomológica del Perú, SEP, es una asociación de carácter científico, cultural y social, de duración indefinida, sin fines de lucro. Fundada el 30 de junio de 1956 como Sociedad Entomológica Agrícola del Perú, e inscrita en los Registros Públicos de Asociaciones el 15 de Octubre de 1956. Está abierta a todos los profesionales y personas que se dediquen o tengan afinidad por la Entomología como ciencia básica ó aplicada.
- Frankfurt Zoological SocietyRainforest Protection in the Eastern Andes, Peru--
OBJECTIVE: Securing the species-rich forests and adjacent lowland of the Andean eastern slope.
Biological Research in Peru
- Andes to Amazon Biodiversity ProgramBotanical Research Institute of Texas
KU Resource Guides for Environmental Studies
Online Science Resources
- Understanding Evolution for Teachers- English version
University of California-Berkeley - Comprendiendo la evolución para profesores-Spanish version
University of California-Berkeley - Kids Do Ecology (English version)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- Kids Do Ecology (Spanish version)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- Selvas TropicalesThe book is geared towards students ages 10 and above, and is especially useful for Spanish-speaking youth or Spanish-learners who are also interested in tropical rainforests.
Conservation International
Conservation International partners with governments on local, regional, and national levels around the world to deal with high priority areas of concern. From Brazil to China, from the U.S. to Liberia, CI engages nations in a common goal — to preserve natural resources for the benefit of all life on Earth. (Wikipedia)
Conservation International work in Peru:
- Conservation International work(Website in English)
- Conservación International, Perú(Website in Spanish)
Misión: Centrada en una sólida base científica, con alianzas y proyectos demostrativos en el campo, Conservación Internacional apoya y fortalece a las sociedades para el cuidado responsable y sostenible de la naturaleza, nuestra biodiversidad global, para el bienestar de la humanidad. - Rapid Assessment ProgramConservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) works to fill this void. RAP, founded in 1990, sends teams of experts on short expeditions into critically important field sites around the world. Experts at these sites evaluate the state of a region’s biodiversity, the health of its ecosystems and the multiple benefits that nature provides to people. By doing so, RAP provides information that can guide effective decision-making about conservation.
Additional Reading
- The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern PeruBy Christine Franquemont, Edward Franquemont, and Timothy Plowman. Published by FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1990.