Web sites for kids about biodiversity and endangered species

• Kid’s Corner (U.S. Fish and Wildlife)
  http://www.fws.gov/endangered/kids/index.html
  
  
• Kids' Planet (Defenders of Wildlife)
  http://www.kidsplanet.org
  
  
• Biodiversity Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
  http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/it_takes_all_kinds/
  
  
• Endangered Species for Kids! Links and books recommended by the California Academy of Sciences Library
  http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/endangerjuv.htm
  
  
• Lesson Plans on Biodiversity from National Geographic Society’s Xpeditions
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/08/biodiversity.html
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g68/preserve.html
  
  

Endangered Species

• The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species (World Conservation Union)
  http://www.redlist.org
  
  
• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force
  http://www.bushmeat.org
  
  
• Defenders of Wildlife
  http://www.defenders.org

Biodiversity

• Biodiversity Hotspots (Conservation International)
  http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org
  
  
• Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nationals Environment Programme)
  http://www.biodiv.org
  
  
• Wildlife Conservation Society’s Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  http://drcongo-wcs.org

Organizations Dedicated to Protecting Biodiversity

• Bushmeat Crisis Task Force
  http://www.bushmeat.org
  
  
• Conservation International
  http://www.conservation.org
  
  
• The Nature Conservancy
  http://www.nature.org/
  
  
• Sierra Club
  http://www.sierraclub.org/
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution
  http://www.si.edu/
  
  
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  http://www.fws.gov/
  
  
• Wildlife Conservation Society
  http://www.wcs.org
  
  
• World Conservation Union (IUCN)
  http://www.iucn.org/
  
  
• World Wildlife Fund
  http://www.worldwildlife.org/

Amphibians

• Global Amphibian Assessment (Conservation International)
  This website contains lots of important information about the conservation status of nearly every amphibian species in the world! It’s a really great website!
  http://www.globalamphibians.org
  
  
• Amphibians Species of the World: an Online Reference http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php
  
  
• AmphibiaWeb
  http://www.amphibiaweb.org
  
  
• Declining Amphibian Population Task Force
  http://www.open.ac.uk/daptf/index.htm
  
  
• Amphibiville at the Detroit Zoo (National Amphibian Conservation Center)
  http://www.detroitzoo.org/Attractions/Amphibiville/Amphibiville/
  
  
• Dave Blackburn’s Web Site
  http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/hanken/public_html/Blackburn.htm