Organisations

Relevant organisations and initiatives in Africa

East Africa Links

• African Conservation Centre (ACC)
• African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE)
• Addis Ababa University
• Birdlife Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests Homepage
• British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
• East African Wild Life Society
• Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF)
• Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes (HEEAL)
• International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
• Kasigau Project
• National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
• Nature Kenya
• The Taita Project
• Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG)
• Tanzania GIS User Group (TZGISUG)
• Tanzania Wildlife Corridors
• Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI)
• University of Dar es Salaam
• University of Nairobi

Conservation NGOs

• BirdLife Africa
• Conservation International
• Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF)
• Plantlife International
• TRAFFIC (Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network)
• Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
• World Wildlife Fund (Eastern and Southern Africa Office)

Research Consortia

• Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
• International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP)
• International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
• Mountain Research Initiative - AfroMont
• Past Global Changes (PAGES)
• Quaternary Research Association
• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
• World University Network (WUN)

Science-Policy Interface

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD)

Other Useful Links

• Africa Adapt
• Africa Adaption Knowledge Network (AAKNet)
• BIOFRAG Project
• Eldis (gateway to development policy, practice and research documents)
• Future Earth Initiative
• Global Land Project (GLP)
• People, Land and Time in Africa (PLATINA)
• Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (PREDICTS)
• Pro-Poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa (PRESA)
• Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation (ROBIN)

Data

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Software

Freely available software for environmental research

Image Processing

• CAN-EYE (canopy structure imaging software)

Phylogenies

• MrBayes
• phyloGenerator

Spatial Analsyis

• Biomapper (species distributions)
• BIOMOD (species distributions, requires R)
  - Software notes
• CLUE (land use change modelling)
• DIVA-GIS (mapping software)
• Dinamica
• GME (requires R and ArGIS [not free])
• GEOTRANS (coordinate conversion)
• GRASS GIS (mapping software)
  - Manuals
• ILWIS GIS (mapping software)
• Marxan (conservation planning)
• MaxEnt (species distributions)
  - ENMTools
• Quantum GIS (mapping software)
• SAM (spatial analysis in macroecology)
• SDSM-DC (climate downscaling)
• SWAT (soil & water assessment tool)
  - Water balance verison
• Zonation (conservation planning)

Statistics & Programming

• Orwell Dev-C++ (programming environment)
• R Project for Statistical Computing
  - Contributed packages
  - Devtools (package development)
  - Free tutorials
  - RStudio (user interface)
  - Tinn-R (code editor)