This looks like an excellent project.

Quoted: Wildlife, conservation issues and nature-based activities are not only important in the countryside, they are also very much part of our cities. These activities and issues can too often be overlooked or fail to register in debates about what makes a good city. This research seeks, first, to highlight the importance of urban sites to people and to wildlife. Second, it aims to raise important issues facing urban nature groups and sites.

Beautiful photos of the Adirondacks with multimedia feature...

Quoted: After purchasing a vast unbroken wilderness in Adirondack Park that only loggers and a few hunters have ever seen, the Nature Conservancy will not preserve it all as public land.

I'm so interested in these floating islands in Loktak Lake.

Quoted: THE sangai, or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), a delicately beautiful animal found only in the hilly north-east Indian state of Manipur, has already had one let-off. In 1951 it was ruled extinct. Happily, a half-dozen were found two years later living on a vast island of floating biomass on Loktak lake, the second-biggest lake in India, to the south-east of Manipur's state capital, Imphal.

Includes a list of UNESCO WH forests, with introductory information on each.

Quoted: Ranging in size from 18 hectares (Vallée de Mai, Seychelles), to 8.8 million hectares (Lake Baikal, Russia), World Heritage forest sites now have a total surface area of over 76 million hectares...Given these figures, it is clear that the World Heritage Convention is uniquely positioned amongst international conventions, programmes and agencies to play a leading role for in-situ conservation of forest biodiversity.

This forest reserve looks incredibly beautiful. It is located on the border shared by Belarus and Poland.

Quoted: The Reserve was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1992 and internationally recognised as a Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1993.

A successful "eco-community" built on reclaimed land in Surrey, England.

Quoted: The Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is the UK's largest carbon-neutral eco-community - the first of its kind in this country. BedZED was developed by the Peabody Trust in partnership with Bill Dunster Architects and BioRegional Development Group, environmental consultants.

Google Book Search is wonderful! :)

Quoted: The most authoritative and up-to-date review of the development of the world's cities and other human settlements. The first global assessment of urban slums, the challenges they present and the ways to improve the lives of slum dwellers. Statistical annexes provide essential information on demographic, spatial & economic, housing, and environmental / infrastructural indicators.

Excellent article on urbanization in the developing world.

Quoted: ...urbanisation has stabilised in Europe and the Americas with about 75 percent of the population living in urban areas. By comparison, only 35 percent of Africa and Asia's current population is urban. But the developing world is projected to absorb 95 percent of the world's urban growth over the next 20 years...

These monkeys are so unique!

Quoted: Grey-shanked doucs, first described in 1997, are tree-dwelling colobine monkeys with orange faces and tufts of whiskers. Like many primate species in Vietnam, they face an uncertain future due to hunting and habitat loss.